How the Bitter White Minority in the South Ended Up With Huge Power in Washington @alternet

How the Bitter White Minority in the South Ended Up With Huge Power in Washington @alternet

"Ever since the 1960s, as Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy was being born, there’s been a ongoing dilemma (if not huge contradiction) for the erstwhile “Party of Lincoln” to manage: how to pander just enough to get the racist votes they need, without making it too difficult to deny that’s precisely what they’re doing."