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Originally Posted by finnbow
To this day, the GOP is heavily invested in Nixon's Southern Strategy (and Reagan's cynical courting of Evangelicals) which solidified the bubba vote (and which now comprises their base). From an electoral POV, they simply don't know how to split the sheets with the nativists and Bible-thumpers in their midst. Without this base, they'd basically be a party of wealthy industrialists and their suck-ups.
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Precisely.
And this "investment" has paid off for them handsomely for better than 30 years.
But those chickens are now coming home to roost.
It's interesting how Republicans like to point out that is was mostly Democrats that were racists back in the day, and then go into complete denial when you confront them with the fact that they lured virtually every racist Southern Democrat over to their side with their Southern Strategy.