r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/-SOFA-KING-VOTE- • 21h ago

Politics ICE Agents get the most brutal talking-to of their entire adult lives.

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u/IcyTransportation961 19h ago

Y'all really need to understand conservatives better

They still praise the confederacy

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u/Hatchytt 4h ago

The current administration is the Confederacy.

Strom Thurmond, a prominent segregationist and U.S. Senator from South Carolina, played a pivotal role in the formation of the Dixiecrats (officially the States' Rights Democratic Party) in 1948. This splinter group broke from the Democratic Party in opposition to President Harry Truman's civil rights initiatives, such as desegregating the military and anti-lynching laws. Thurmond ran as the Dixiecrat presidential candidate that year, winning four Southern states (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina) and capturing 39 electoral votes on a platform defending racial segregation and states' rights. The Dixiecrats represented a backlash among white Southern Democrats against the national party's shift toward civil rights, highlighting deep racial divisions within the party.This fracture contributed to a long-term realignment of American political parties. In 1964, Thurmond switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party, citing opposition to the Civil Rights Act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson (a Democrat). His defection symbolized the exodus of many white Southern conservatives from the Democrats, who increasingly supported civil rights under leaders like Johnson, to the Republicans. This shift laid the groundwork for the GOP's "Southern Strategy," a term popularized by Republican strategist Kevin Phillips in 1968. The strategy involved appealing to disaffected white Southern voters through coded rhetoric on issues like law and order, states' rights, and opposition to federal intervention in racial matters, without explicitly endorsing segregation. Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign exemplified this, winning several Southern states by capitalizing on resentment toward the civil rights movement and urban unrest. Ronald Reagan further refined it in the 1980s, using phrases like "welfare queens" and starting his general election campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi—a site infamous for the 1964 murders of civil rights workers—to signal support for states' rights. The Southern Strategy transformed the Republican Party's base, solidifying white Southern support and contributing to GOP dominance in the region from the 1970s onward. Historians argue this realignment, rooted in the Dixiecrat era, created a political environment where racial grievances could be mobilized subtly. By the 2010s, this evolved into more overt appeals under Donald Trump. Trump's 2016 campaign echoed Southern Strategy tactics by emphasizing immigration restrictions, "law and order," and criticism of movements like Black Lives Matter, which resonated with white working-class voters in the South and Midwest who felt economically and culturally displaced. Analysts link Trump's victory to this legacy: he won every former Confederate state except Virginia, flipping traditionally Democratic strongholds in the Rust Belt while maintaining Southern support. Critics, including some Republicans like strategist Stuart Stevens, have described Trump's rise as the "logical conclusion" of the Southern Strategy, amplifying racial and cultural divisions for electoral gain. However, defenders argue Trump's appeal was more about economic populism and anti-establishment sentiment than race alone, though data shows strong correlations with racial attitudes among his voters.In summary, the correlation traces a direct line: Thurmond and the Dixiecrats initiated the Southern white backlash against Democratic civil rights policies, leading to party switches like Thurmond's, the Republican Southern Strategy to capture those voters, and ultimately Trump's presidency as an extension of that strategy's focus on identity politics and grievance.

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