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But I've strayed from the subject of Dick Nixon and his own part in American mythopoeia, most especially how he started bringing right-wing "evangelical" Christianity into the forefront of U.S. politics. This was part of his "Southern Strategy", an evil GOP scheme to detach the unhappy right-wing Democrats who were incensed that FDR made some attempt to extend social relief to non 'white' persons. The extremist Christians whose sort of Protestantism goes back to slaveowning days were happy to throw in with Richard Nixon. Anyone who knows about the Nixon "tapes" knows what a bigot he was. (cont'd)