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Originally posted by Spanky
I thought it was Nixon who had the Southern Strategy and then Reagan who perfected it. Why is Bill Clinton at fault? As a loyal Republican, I think we have to take the blame for this one.
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Nixon's Southern Strategy was mostly about race rather than religion. I think we started to see religion become more of a motivating factor in the Southern Strategy during the 80s, after Nixon was gone (didn't Ford concede most of the South running against Carter?), and at first I think it was a partial proxy for race (I don't know how the Bakke decision became an issue for evangelists to rally around, but they did).
I can say I'd rather see the nation divided over religion than over race.
