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	Southern strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phrase Southern strategy itself, was invented by Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips.
		The first Southern state to give the GOP control of both its governorship and its legislature was Florida, and it did not do this until 1998 [2], long after the original architects of the Southern Strategy had left the GOP.
		The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South, by Joseph A. Aistrup.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_strategy (2769 words)

	TAP: Vol 15, Iss. 2. All Eyes on Dixie. Cliff Schecter and Ruy Teixeira. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the advantages of the non-southern strategy is that the Democratic presidential candidate won't have to try to appeal to a bloc of very conservative southern white voters who aren't likely to vote for him anyway.
		The whole point of this strategy should be to allow the Democrats to craft a clear message that both excites liberal base voters and holds appeal for moderate white swing voters, especially in the Midwest where the loss of manufacturing jobs and health-care access have hit particularly hard.
		A final problem is that if a non-southern strategy induces the national party to move sharply left and to abandon serious competition in the region, the down-ballot implications of the strategy could be serious, indeed.
	www.prospect.org /print/V15/2/schecter-c.html (1897 words)

	Southern United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Southern American English is a dialect of the English language spoken throughout the South.
		Characteristics of southern literature including a focus on a common southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one's role within it, the community's dominating religion and the burden religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, and the use of southern dialect.
		While southern Florida is seen by many as not truly part of the South (or in some cases, not even a part of Anglo-America, but rather a Latin American region) in terms of culture, the Florida Panhandle, northeastern areas, North Central Florida, Nature Coast, and Central Florida remain culturally tied to the South.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_United_States (6140 words)

	Bush's Southern Strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With a Democrat lock on the Negro and Southerners still considered the "step-child" by the Republicans, Alabama Governor George C. Wallace developed the next wave of "Southern Strategy," in 1968, in which the South would attempt to go independent, but win support in the rest of the country, as well.
		Reagan immediately claimed their "Southern Strategy" as his own, with an open appeal to Southerners to join in a Northern and Western alliance, which catapulted Reagan into the White House.
		Southerners, who had been pivotal in Bush's election, put their "Solid-South" machinery into action, expecting that Trent Lott, Bob Barr and other segregationists would make Bush toe the line.
	www.nationalist.org /docs/cartoons/2002/bush.html (1361 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / A 'Southern strategy' for Democrats
		Southern politics is now dominated by a faith-based devotion to the values taught in the fundamentalist Protestant churches that occupy important street corners in every town.
		Mass conversion of this bloc of voters was, of course, Richard Nixon's goal when he adopted the Republican's "Southern Strategy." Nixon cultivated restive whites with denunciations of integration orders handed down by federal courts and efforts to salt the judiciary with segregation-friendly judges.
		Southerners who led congressional armed services committees invariably loaded their home states with military installations, arguing that sites such as Columbia, S.C., were more conducive to year-round basic training than a location near, say, Camden, Maine.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/02/08/a_southern_strategy_for_democrats (1637 words)

	Consortiumnews.com
		The political irony of the party realignment is that many white Southerners, who have benefited disproportionately from the help of the federal government, are effectively delivering themselves into the hands of Republican leaders who malign the federal government and are closely allied with giant corporations.
		When white Southerners reclaimed political control in the late 1800s, often with the aid of terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the lynching of fl activists, the region gave its political allegiance to the Democratic Party.
		On the other, many Southerners are determined to hold fast to their regional heritage, even if it means rejecting the prevailing trends toward greater tolerance of diversity, which is becoming a hallmark in many parts of the United States and in much of the modern world.
	www.consortiumnews.com /2003/120103.html (3963 words)

	State: Inside Southern Strategy, connections help
		Competitors complain that Southern Strategy flaunts its ties to the governor and poaches their clients.
		Southern Strategy got into the lobbying business about the time Gov. Bush started pushing to have private business take over an array of government functions.
		Many of the governor's staff and agency heads that Southern Strategy lobbyists call on every day owe at least part of their success to Rancourt.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/03/07/news_pf/State/Inside_Southern_Strat.shtml (990 words)

	ZNet \|Race \| A Bottom-up Southern Strategy for Power in the 21st Century
		A people's southern strategy is an essential foundation for today's movement if we are to win the popular democracy, justice and equality we are fighting for.
		Regardless of which ruling class political party it was, the strategy is always the same - brutal repression and super-exploitation built upon a foundation of white supremacy, patriarchy and all forms of division and couched in the language of false morality and religion.
		The most essential tactic of the ruling class in its southern strategy has always been and remains today white supremacy and all its manifestations - institutionalized racism, white privilege and racist/anti-immigrant ideology, etc. This makes it the most essential target for a bottom-up southern strategy if we are to be successful.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=7322 (1745 words)

	Southern strategy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Southern Strategy was deployed even more effectively by Richard Nixon[For more info, click on this link] in the election of 1968.
		(basing a general election strategy on appeals to "states' rights" as a naked play against civil rights laws grew less effective; there was a greater danger of a national backlash.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/southern_strategy.htm (2523 words)

	Southern Strategy, Inc
		Nixon's Southern Strategy would have never gotten off the ground, had there not been the political assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the urban riots that effectively "red-lined" every major industrial city north of the Mason-Dixon Line, and helped set off the post-industrial stampede to the South.
		One of the crown jewels of "Southern Strategy, Inc."--the Houston-based Schlumberger Corp.--was implicated deeply in the Permindex British covert assassination bureau that was behind the killing of JFK and the failed attempts to murder French President Charles de Gaulle.
		Historians of the Southern Strategy have heralded the 1994 Newt Gingrich-led "Jacobin Revolution," which saw the Republican Party sweep control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, as the crowning accomplishment of that effort.
	www.rense.com /general6/southern.htm (1483 words)

	ISAR - Southern Strategy Has Bottomed Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1972, the core of President Nixon's reelection campaign was not break-ins and wire-tapping but rather the "Southern strategy," or as the Nixon team called it, "positive polarization." It was about winning over the South by pitting a singled-out minority, such as African Americans, against a fearful majority, such as angry Southern whites.
		Some of the senior Republican senators at the impeachment trial today are Southern Democrats wooed into the GOP -- Trent Lott of Mississippi, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Phil Gramm of Texas.
		"It should be clear to GOP leaders after this election that the 'Southern strategy' has run its course," says Faye M. Anderson, a national vice chairman of the New Majority Council, a new Republican National Committee project aimed at reaching out to minority voters.
	www.ferris.edu /isar/Institut/CCC/southernstrategy.htm (683 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring 2001
		In short, the US Southern Command legal engagement strategy is a blueprint for democracy-building in the context of the rule of law.
		This legal engagement strategy focuses on working cooperatively with nations in the region, other government agencies, and international organizations[15] in order to reinforce the importance of military institutions embracing the rule of law by adhering to domestic laws and international legal standards of behavior.
		Rather, as Southern Command continues to demonstrate under the new Commander in Chief, General Peter Pace, it is time for the United States to seek great things, to roll up its sleeves and help enlarge the number of true democracies in the world community.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/01spring/addicott.htm (4958 words)

	John Edwards' Southern strategy - Salon
		These Southern politics have been in conflict since President Andrew Jackson split with his vice president, the original theoretician of Southern reaction, John Calhoun.
		The Jacksonian slogan was "opportunity for all, special privilege for none." But the Calhoun wing of the party triumphed, leading to the Civil War, eventually the end of Reconstruction, and the long rule of the Bourbons, or local oligarchs, who maintained their power under the rubric of states' rights against federal authority.
		Bush's strategy is a supra-Southern strategy involving the exploitation of patriotism, resentment and fear.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/blumenthal/2004/07/08/john_edwards/index.html (915 words)

	The Republican Party and racism: from the "southern strategy" to Bush
		Nixon’s “southern strategy” involved an appeal to those former Democrats in the South who were disaffected by the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act by a Democratic Congress, and the enforcement of these laws by the Johnson administration.
		The southern states—where fls had been virtually barred from voting since the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period in 1876—began to break with the Democratic Party in 1948.
		In the next three presidential elections, the southern states largely returned in the Democratic camp, as the two major bourgeois parties vacillated over the civil rights question.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/dec2002/race-d24.shtml (749 words)

	Why the GOP's Southern Strategy Ended, Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Therefore, they had to have a Southern strategy, else they would lose power to people whom they considered to be actively disloyal.
		The first "Southern strategy" of the Republican Party was that of Reconstruction: It combined fls with traditional highland whites to create a competitive political system.
		The South disenfranchised its fls and many poor whites quickly, with the result that a Southern vote of 2.3 million in 1896 was down to 1.35 million in 1904, falling from one-sixth to one-tenth of the national vote.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/2/23/172905.shtml (1453 words)

	State: Inside Southern Strategy, connections help
		Since leaving the governor's staff in 1999, Rancourt has become something of a land baron: He bought a home for his parents in Lakeland, bought and sold an interest in a South Florida development company and bought and sold an $800,000 beachfront lot on St. George Island.
		Southern Strategy's vice president is John Thrasher, the governor's close friend and sometime golf partner.
		Other Southern Strategy lobbyists are Tom Herndon, former chief of staff for Gov. Lawton Chiles; Chris Dudley, former chief of staff for Brogan; and James T. Moore, former director of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/03/07/State/Inside_Southern_Strat.shtml (1035 words)

	Free-CliffNotes.com - Southern Strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy (or as the Nixon administration would call it positive polarization) of the 1960s was a political platform that provided the final push in transforming the the party of Lincoln into the political party greatly favored by the great grandsons of the old Confederacy.
		This strategy was aimed at getting support from the traditionally Democratic South by promising not to promote sweeping social or economic changes in race relations.
		The shadow of the Southern Strategy and radical right association of David Duke, and Pat Buchanan has most definitely reprieved the faces of most non-whites to the GOP.
	www.free-cliffnotes.com /data/fd/pbk157.shtml (1122 words)

	That old-time "Southern strategy" - Salon
		The recent recess appointments by President George W. Bush of two controversial Deep South Republicans to federal courts of appeals indicates that the Republican "Southern strategy" remains alive and well.
		To overcome the opposition of the then-solid phalanx of Southern Democrats in the Senate, President Lyndon Johnson used a recess appointment to place Thurgood Marshall on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
		He opened his 1980 campaign in the South at the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi, an essentially white festival and political gathering in the county where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/feature/2004/03/24/southern_strategy/index.html (998 words)

	untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In response, many anti-fl white Southern segregationists abandoned their longtime affiliations as Democrats and moved to make the Republican Party of the South the unofficial "white man’s party." It was their refuge from the "fl hordes." No-one said this publicly, of course.
		Consolidation of the white Southern vote and holding down the national fl vote became part of the national Republican plan.
		That was the strategy that helped the Republicans be successful in 6 out of the last 9 Presidential races, including this last one.
	www.safero.org /columns/unwrapped34.html (599 words)

	Why the GOP's Southern Strategy Ended, Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Eisenhower strategy was built on class, not race, and he did best in the fastest-growing states of the South with the most Northern settlers.
		Carter carried every Southern state but Virginia, Ford's Southern vote fell to 44.7 percent of the total, and Carter's national margin in the popular vote was provided by the South, whose percentage of the national popular vote was the highest since the Civil War (22.5 percent).
		Reagan got 51.4 percent of the Southern vote, as compared to 50.5 percent of the Northern vote, and Southern turnout rose to 23.9 percent of the national vote.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/2/23/172743.shtml (1849 words)

	Southern Strategy, Inc.: Where Wall Street Meets Tobacco Road
		Today, Southern cities like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, and even Charlotte, North Carolina dominate the ``new economy'' and house the multinational corporate and banking headquarters that preside over the deregulated looting of every last remaining income stream.
		This Houston-Atlanta-Charlotte nexus can be dubbed ``Southern Strategy, Inc.'' Of course, it was Wall Street--most prominently the financial interests associated with Harriman, Morgan, and Rockefeller--which set this shift in motion.
		The heart of the Southern Strategy was the oligarchy's plan to shift the United States from the world's most powerful industrial economy, into a post-industrial rentier-financier empire.
	members.tripod.com /~american_almanac/tobacco.htm (6076 words)

	McCain pursues Southern primary strategy for 2008
		Most lawmakers and aides interviewed said it is too early to tell how McCain’s second presidential bid will play with Southern conservatives, but several said they could envision him appealing to their constituents because of his military background, his support for the president on the Iraq war or his crusade against earmarks.
		Southern conservatives could be more inclined to back McCain based on his chances in a general election if Democrats appear likely to nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), some lawmakers said.
		It remains to be seen whether McCain can execute a new Southern strategy, but Southerners have noted his presence.
	www.thehill.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/033006/mccain.html (682 words)

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