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Why the Republicans support white nationalism

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In this image, we can see the results of the 1968 presidential election. We can see that the majority of states, red here, voted for Republican Nixon. We can see a few states, mainly in the northeast, who voted for Humphrey, the Democrat. Then we see five states in the deep South who voted for a third party: George Wallace of the American Independent Party.

Even though Nixon won this election, he realized it was an election he probably would not have won if Johnson chose to run a second term or if Robert Kennedy was not assassinated. So, as pointed out by the New York Times in 1996, Richard Nixon started a strategy to get the kinds of people who voted for George Wallace to vote Republican: By using carefully worded “Dog Whistle” phrases (“Welfare Queen”, “State’s rights”, etc.), Republicans were able to win elections by appealing to what is now called the White Nationalist voting block in a manner where there could be plausible denial that they were courting racist votes.

By doing this, the Republican party is no longer the party of Lincoln, although they like to claim otherwise to not lose otherwise conservative voters who are opposed to racism.

Which leads us to the Charlottesville, Virginia protests we had last night and this morning. This many openly racist people would not have felt it was OK to openly support racism if the Republican party had not been courting this voting block for the last half century.


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