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How to Foil the Race-Baiting “Southern Strategy”

The “Southern Strategy” was devised by Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Newt Gingrich, and others as an oblique demonization of African Americans (usually disguised as “law and order”, “anti-welfare”, “States‘ Rights”, etc) designed to amplify the white vote. It has successfully empowered the Republican Party when used against undisciplined Democrats, and it is now being used against LGBT and Feminists. Here are ways to foil these strategies and restore our Country to Democratic meritocracy norms.

Vern Scott
8 min readAug 11, 2023
King Philip’s and Pequot Wars were Native American rebellions against New England Colonists, which may have erased any Colonial sympathies for minorities. Should Native Americans have been more patient?

King Philip’s War 1676: An Early Southern Strategy Example: The year was 1675, and up to this point the New England Colonists and Native Americans (hereafter called N.A.s) had gotten along reasonably well. In absence of further knowledge, it might be assumed that half the Colonists respected the N.A.s, half disrespected them, and vice-versa. Soon, King Philip’s War erupted (an attempted genocide by N.A.s upon Colonists, but in fairness the N.A.s population numbers had been decimated/lands & resources lost since the arrival of the Europeans)…

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Vern Scott
Vern Scott

Written by Vern Scott

Scott lives in the SF Bay Area and writes confidently about Engineering, History, Politics, and Health

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