Southern Strategy repositioned white supremacy as mainstream politics

Evidence

The new right had its origins in the Barry Goldwater campaign of 1964 and the George Wallace campaign of 1968. An early achievement was influencing the Republican “Southern Strategy”; a project developed around the 1968 presidential election— and fully supported by the wily Richard Nixon —with the objective of repositioning white supremacism asamainstream political initiative in the aftermath of the civil rights reforms (Phillips 1970; Perlstein 2008, 2009 ). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘dog whistle’ literature and to discussion of Nixon’s Southern Strategy as a direct response to the civil rights reforms. — connects to: Racially conservative whites’ defection drove the Southern realignment; The racial-views mechanism nearly fully accounts for Southern whites’ partisan shift. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 462; Contemporary right-wing politics elevate performativity and white supremacy in schools — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 922 (+2 more)