This week on #UnsungHistory, with guest Kevin M. Kruse, we look at the Southern Strategy, the systematic and well-documented approach the Republican Party used win over white voters in the South, leading to the realignment of the two political parties over several decades.

🎧: https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/southern-strategy/

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"It chose the latter, and when most successfully executed, a race-based strategy was the foundation of many of the Republican Party's biggest victories, from Nixon to Trump.”

~ Ibid.

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"Race has defined the modern Republican Party. After Goldwater carried only Southern states and received a record low of 7% of the black vote, the party faced a basic choice: do what was necessary to appeal to more white voters, or build a party to win with white voters."

~ Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump (New York: Knopf, 2020,), p. 31

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@RobertMaguire The loathsome #Goldwater Institute previously sued the state to block voter-approved #Medicaid expansion. A similar group -- "the Arizona Creditors Bar Association" -- is suing to overturn voter-approved amelioration of #medical #bankruptcy laws. "Pro-life" in word but not in deed.