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12/28/2002 Archived Entry: "1968"

THE DEMOCRATS' SUBVERSIVE STRATEGY: Ever since the Trent Lott debacle, liberals have gleefully been pointing to Kevin Phillips' "Southern Strategy" as evidence that the Republican Party has benefitted politically from playing to voters' racial prejudices and resentments. In particular, they argue that the GOP's rebirth in the South since the 1960s is primarily because they absorbed the old Dixiecrat vote after President Johnson permanently alienated them from the national Democratic Party by signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the "open-housing" Civil Rights Act of 1968. While neither major U.S. party can claim to be pure on racial issues, our friend Lawrence Henry recently argued in The American Prowler that the nation, including the South, turned to increasingly toward the GOP after the 1960s because liberalism and the modern Democratic Party liberals dominate went mad. A piece too good to be lost in the Christmas shuffle.