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Tuesday's elections leave little doubt that the Republicans' Nixon-era strategy to win over white Southerners has been a resounding success. But have they lost the rest of the country along the way?
Racism in the Republican PartyConor Friedersdorf on how the GOP can repair its image—and the myths the left perpetuates.
The Polarization CardToday the Republicans are the shrinking minority, who, with no strategy to improve the country, have only the polarization card to play.
In a Research 2000 poll conducted a little over a month ago, only 42% of Republicans believed that Barack Obama was born in the United States.
Race, Taxes, Birth Certificates, and EugenicsI thought this too important to go away. The GOP has lived by the 'Southern Strategy' for near 40 years, and now we get to reap what they have sown.
For The Modern GOP, It's A Return To The "White Voter Strategy"It's all very reminiscent of the party's notorious Southern Strategy, which carried the GOP for decades.
The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their UndoingWith every passing day it gets harder to think of this sudden dialing-up of whiny hate speech as sheer coincidence. Instead, it's beginning to look inevitable -- so much so that maybe the real question is, What is it about health care that brings out the latent racism in the GOP?
Paul Krugman: The Republicans-- the party of racial backlash & a failed political-economyObama therefore has room to be bold.
Fear-mongering: On their path back from the wilderness, the GOP shouldn't use fear as a strategyEver since Richard Nixon's infamous "Southern strategy" of 1968, Republicans have won power largely by convincing voters that strange and exotic others were to blame for all their ills. It's the feminists' fault, they said. Or the blacks.
Chambliss (R-GA), fearing high turnout, turns to "dog whistle" politics: "The *other* folks are voting"The Republican is outwardly confident, but there's urgency in his voice as he tours North Georgia, trying to boost turnout in his predominately white base: "The other folks are voting," he bluntly tells supporters.
The Ugly America by Mike Farrell Yet today, unable to rise to the challenge of hope, would-be-president McCain chooses expediency over country, placing the priestess of parochialism, a barb-tongued, inanity-prone neophyte, a heartbeat away from his Oval Office.
08/07/2008 Robert H. Patillo II, rpatillo@robertpatillo.com
Southern Discomfort: The Prosperous South Has No Strong Motivation to Turn Democrata rising business class was key to the South's transformation into a Republican bastion in the last half of the 20th century. The split-levels and ranch houses were filled with people who shared the attitudes and values of small towns and family farms.
Did It All Start With Nixon? It's a good question. As far as I can tell, the answer goes something like this: Nixon's government was like pagan Rome, while Reagan's was like the Christian Empire after Constantine.
Seeds of Destruction The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully.
Bob Hertbert: Seeds of Destruction Bob writes: The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully.
Senator John Mc Cain is finding himself vilified with the white racist paint brush by his friends in the North Carolina Republican Party who are hell bent on exploiting overt racism to pour scorn on Senator Barack Obama.
Al Jazeera English - News - Us Election Diary: The Race CardExcellent in depth background on the race card in US political life and history.
Reagan the Race-Baiter Bob Herbert makes the compelling case that Ronald Reagan pandered to Southern racism in his campaign for president. The murders were among the most notorious in American history.
What to do about the GOP: Rip it up and start again?I find myself much less optimistic about the future of the Republican Party than Mark Schmitt. … There are, in general, three ways to compete for the majority of the vote … 3.
How the Democrats paid dearly for doing what was right while the GOP profited from evilThe GOP would foment distrust when our various peoples might have put the Civil War behind them and moved forward. The GOP would wage war on labor as well as "the nattering nabobs of negativity", Spiro Agnew's code word for academics and free thinkers.
Politics and Racism In TennesseeThe article below is from a diarist named Rook who posted this on Daily Kos.
Bigotry Beneath the FogThe US Republicans yank an extension of the Voter's Act.
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