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All pushing the exact same narrative. Because it's convenient and far better than actually debating issues.Dope, you're on the dopey side with your resentments. It was because
the Republicans who were saying that Democrats were the racist partyand pointing out that the Republicans were the party of Lincoln and the
racist South was the Democrats, which was true. Y'all were sitting back there snickering and laughing while you plastered it all over the internet, and we had to learn about the Southern Strategy - because then Southern racists switched parties.
So now you want to tell us to get over it? We ain't gettin' over nothin' Dope. Let's from Let's Go Brandon to you. Let's Go Dope. That's something you can understand. You can resent forever - that's what y'all do. And if one resentment goes sour y'all will invent new ones.
Reagan? "In August 1980, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan made a much-noted appearance at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Mississippi,[72] where his speech contained the phrase "I believe in states' rights"." "Reagan's campaigns used racially coded rhetoric, making attacks on the "welfare state" and leveraging resentment towards affirmative action.[78][79] Dan Carter explains how "Reagan showed that he could use coded language with the best of them, lambasting welfare queens, busing, and affirmative action as the need arose".[80]" Quotes from Wiki. Pretty famous.
I think Atwater talks about top issues, and I tell people that racism was always there, but under the surface. I stopped hearing "n!gger" as much as when I was a kid. Reagan didn't have to do the Southern Strategy hard because the road was paved already, but he did it too. You foster and nurture your resentments Dope. I was born in the Midwest and have the healthy version of suspicion of Washington and the New England East Coast states.
"He (George Wallace) also talked about the politics of race across America, saying Ronald Reagan had used tactics of divisiveness to install "a tax structure that is the most crippling system in the country... . The rich got richer while the poor and the middle class didn't get anything at all."
"I don't support white supremacy," Wallace told me. "I'm the one who made them take 'white supremacy' off the roster that was the symbol of the Democratic Party in this state."
"I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson," he continued. "He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation, and I was wrong. The media has rehabilitated Johnson, why won't it rehabilitate me?" "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/dai...And I reiterate that for many years Republicans touted that Democrats were the party of racism and segregation and now tell us to get over the Southern Strategy.
