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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 3 years ago

Why does Donald Trump appeal to those few Southerners who are still racist in 2017, the last gasps of the Confederacy?

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  • 3 years ago
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    Treasonous Trump is obviously anti-minority.

  • 3 years ago

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    racists and other irrational haters are very easy to manipulate;

    the gop's been doing it w/ its go-to Southern Strategy Base since the 1940s at least.

    they have to be Low Info's to begin w/

    and theyr conditioned to allowing themselves a furious, baseless emotional reaction,

    AND acting on it : lynch mobs, KKK night riding arsonists; making and enforcing Jim Crow laws...

    so the gop knos just demagog them w/ racist slogans and foment their rabid hatreds,

    and tht will drive all othr topics outa their minds and

    they'v become your mindless cannon fodder & Useful Idiots.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater#.22South...

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    Lee Atwater on the GOP’s Southern Strategy.

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    Atwater was Chairman of the Republican National Committee and a top presidential campaign strategist for Reagan twice and Bush 1 in 1988.

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    Atwater: “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘N___, n____, n____ ‘ " [common racist slur vs black ppL

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    http://bit.ly/1n77H1s Salon.com 2014

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    Lee Atwater said the Southern Strategy

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    was “the blue print for everything I’ve done. ”

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    http://www.salon.com/2014/01/11/the_racism_at_the_... .

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    “The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency”

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    https://newrepublic.com/article/130039/southern-st...

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    “Trump’s campaign can best be understood as the latest manifestation of the Southern Strategy…

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    “which the GOP has deployed for a half-century to shore up its support in the old Confederate states by

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    appeals to racial resentment and white solidarity.”

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Dump was elected by the racists and the uneducated.

  • 3 years ago

    "those few Southerners" did not get him elected, there are millions more. The election was a statistical dead heat you know. 2.9M votes relative to the total number cast is well within the margin of error to be considered a tie. Where did the rest of those votes come from?

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Not his Gotham accent, most assuredly...

  • The last election proves that America is sick of your PC BS and are willing to put up with a few hundred racist idiots rather then let you fked up liberal, communist, third world minded dolts try and destroy individual freedom. Go fk yourself pinko scum.

  • 3 years ago

    Well who are they going to like, Hillary Clinton or Liz Warren or Sanders?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Both he and the 60+ million voters respect the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Rule of Law.

    All but forgotten by the leftist agenda of total government authority.

  • 3 years ago

    oh look.....another follower....

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    The democrats lost that war

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