Post #3349870
2026-06-12 01:16 UTC
The what?
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@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-12 03:13
The Southern Strategy was the major tactic the Democratic Party used to maintain the New Deal coalition. It essentially meant ignoring southern racism in favor of major infrastructure. Southern states just fucked over infradtructure projects where it served black people. It fell apart when, in the 1950s, the Democratic Party began to pursue racial rights.
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@spacegoat@lemmy.world 2026-06-12 01:23
To oversimplify, the parties “switched” platforms in the 60s when Republicans realized that they could appeal to uneducated, racist white people.