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Thread. Elections analyst @SeanTrende on the so-called Southern Strategy, dismissed by one of Trump’s stooges in a hearing yesterday. Trende has actually studied this subject, and is worth listening to. I would add one thought...
...the fact of Republican political ascendancy in the American South was decades on the making. The current character of that ascendancy has elements of more recent provenance. There may be more overt racism — meaning not insensitive language but...
...visceral hostility toward African (and other nonwhite) Americans expressed in actions — among Southern Republican politicians now than there was 30 or even 40 years ago. This may have been an eventual product of the Nixon-era Southern Strategy, but was not its intent.
