On Mar 3, 9:57 am, "Ben Breeck" wrote:
> Well, I strongly suspect that Nixon wouldn't have beenassinated in
> Dallas. Too few people will hate him there...
Except that Kennedy'sassination had
nothing to do with the general attitude
of Dallasites toward him. Oswald was a
fringe Communist.
> when he decides on a "Southern Strategy" seven
> years early and give J Edgar Hoover carte blanche
> to destroy the Civil Rights movement.
Why on earth would he do that? The OTL
"Southern Strategy" consisted largely
of rhetorical deference to the white
South's cultural conservatism. Nixon
did nothing to dismantle or restrain
the system of Federal interventions in
southern election systems to insure
racial fairness, nor to stop the
desegration of southern schools and
colleges. The traditional Democratic
coalition was an unnatural fusion of
conservative rural white Southerners
with liberal urban Northerners; it
was held together by the reflexive
opposition of white Southern voters
to "the party of Lincoln".
What Nixon did was allow liberal
northern Democrats to pose as the
champions of civil rights reform,
thereby driving a wedge between them
and white Southerners, who were
starting to wake up and realize they
had more in common with Republicans
than with the party of "acid, amnesty,
and abortion."
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