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Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
Racially conservative is defined in the article as people who don't want a black man to be president. Look Lyle, the whole Southern Strategy thing is well documented history and it's documented by the people who created and implemented it. It's a matter of fact that the GOP have appealed to white racial sentiment for decades.
And North Carolina voted for Barack Obama for President in 2008 so again I question the validity of your argument.

Well documented by who a couple scrubs who worked with Nixon? Strom Thurmond switching parties? The 1994 Republican Congress (in case you missed it 1968 is not that close to 1994, some may even say they're 26 years apart)?

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B. Johnson....DEMOCRAT

If "white racial sentiment" is personal responsibility, understanding we're a nation of laws, and we want to keep illegal immigrants depressing the wages of blue collar workers then I guess you've got a point otherwise I guess we just disagree.
The demographics of North Carolina have changed dramatically in the half century period between the civil rights act being passed and Obama being elected. They're not all like you anymore. What part of this don't you understand?

It's not a "couple of scrubs". It's the people who ran most of the GOP presidential campaigns in the sixties, seventies and eighties on record and in two cases writing books about how they pandered to white racism to win elections in the south.

And the LBJ quote:


That’s the context of one of the most famous statements on race ever attributed to President Johnson, an off-the-cuff observation he made to a young staffer, Bill Moyers, after encountering a display of blatant racism during a political visit to the South. Moyers tells it in the first person:
We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
In the blunt vernacular that he loved to use, LBJ was describing what the television pundits of today would probably call the politics of resentment and divisiveness. It is still very much with us.



https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lb...est-white-man/


The American dream is often thought of as providing mobility for all. It hasn’t worked that way for blacks and poor whites. How do we explain that the false dream lives on anyway? What makes poor whites accept their destitute state even to this day? President Lyndon Johnson said it best: "If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you."

https://www.humanityinaction.org/kno...wis-fellowship