Friday, June 21, 2013

The Tea Party’s Legacy of Racism

www.consortiumnews.com/2013/06/20/the-tea-partys-legacy-of-racism/
"The anger of Southern whites was taken out primarily on the modern Democratic Party, which had led the fight for civil rights. Opportunistic Republicans, such as Richard Nixon, fashioned a “Southern strategy” using racial code words to appeal to Southern whites and turned the region from solidly Democratic to predominantly Republican as it is today."

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