1.I think there are a few reasons why Southern officials chose to use “Law and Order” as a cover for their justification of racial segregation. For starters, it served as a rallying cry for the South’s numerous white residents who had passionately opposed civil rights legislation in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, giving the movement support from their viewpoints and expanding its base. Second, the politicians were successful in connecting the surge in civil rights advocacy to crime in their community. They portrayed the need for Law and Order in order to deal with the threat that black people would pose as a result of their desire for equal rights.

2.I firmly believe that the southern strategy is still in use in contemporary politics. One instance is our former president’s remarks regarding the construction of a wall to keep out illegal immigrants. He did this to pander to the white southerners who believe that drug trafficking and a lack of jobs are mostly the fault of illegal immigration.