Taikiem Jennings- Southern Strategy influence of American politics
I believe that southern racist politicians choose to frame their defense with the usage of “law and order” because they felt that it would make them popular among working class white people to fight black people during the civil rights movement. President Nixon would argue that they need to face the fact the whole problem is due to people of color. And in order to fix the system is to take a stand and make a change (Page 43-44). They knew by framing the problems on people of color that they would be able to appeal to people that were fed up with the Civil Rights movement.
I believe that this is a huge influence on American politics because there are many people that still think like this. In Alexander’s article she talks about how southern conservatives Republicans believe that a new Republican party could be built based on angry white Democratic party members due to the rights of what occurred during the Civil Rights Movement (Page 43-44). The reason why this is still occurring in today’s American politics is because during the 2016 Presidential election we saw former President Trump use these same types of views to gain control over his voters and gain the votes needed to win. He ran on the motto of “Make America Great Again” and wanted to build a wall to block immigrants from crossing the border. Just like these racist politicians they believe that they could make a new party due to the angry southern democratic feeling that they were left out of their party while they fought for the rights of people of color.
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Good points, Taikiem. The activation of such “fears” in voters was used effectively in Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign – and thereafter.
Good points, Taikiem. The activation of such “fears” in voters was used effectively in Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign – and thereafter.