Commenters has been making similar observations for almost sixty years./1 washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-g…
In 1963, Joe Alsop wrote, “a Goldwater candidacy will automatically make the Republican Party into the ‘white man’s party’.” /2 
Robert Novak offered similar analysis in his 1965 book, THE AGONY OF THE GOP, 1964. /3
A 1966 analysis said the "shining hope" of the GOP was to "harness white resentment and backlash." /4
Nixon's "Southern strategy," which as this astute analysis of 1971 suggested, was really a national "political schemed" at white resentment of "racial liberalism and social tinkering." /5
In THE TWO-PARTY SOUTH (1984), Alexander P. Lamis wrote that "Southern Republican candidates glad took white racist support..." even as they eventually spun it toward "abstract" philosophical positions. /6
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