Yes, the party of Lincoln was very unpopular in the south until Nixon. Can you find a Klan member that’s a democrat today? Unlikely……………………………………………………………….Nixon’s press secretaries, Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes, came up with the “Southern Strategy” to appeal to the southerner whose still fighting the “war of northern aggression” or felt that the Civil Rights Act took away their right to discriminate. You like the Klan, you can keep them.
Yes, the party of Lincoln was very unpopular in the south until Nixon. Can you find a Klan member that’s a democrat today? Unlikely……………………………………………………………….Nixon’s press secretaries, Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes, came up with the “Southern Strategy” to appeal to the southerner whose still fighting the “war of northern aggression” or felt that the Civil Rights Act took away their right to discriminate. You like the Klan, you can keep them.