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jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Goldwater campaigned on opposing civil rights as the first direct attempt to claim southern EC votes by mobilizing racists and other regressive groups.

He opposed specific clauses and efforts of the civil rights movement of his time. Specifically pieces that violated his libertarian ideologies.

Nor is the argument that individual senators and congressmen changed parties, it is that the Repub party deliberately focused on campaigns and policies that would result in racists voting for them. I’m not sure why you are misrepresenting that.

I understand logic is hard for some people so I’ll break it down. The same Republicans that unanimously voted for every civil rights act but one continued to represent their constituents as Republicans, the same racists democrats stayed represented their part into the 2000s.

Southern Strategy and the deliberate decisions of the Repub party in decades following have inextricably linked the whole party with a core block of racist voters. Now even so-called “moderate” Repubs must accept the overt racism alongside whatever wedge issue they are voting for.

Race issues are not important issues for either party since the 70s, it’s been the economy.

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