55.00% - Cultural chauvinists are an electorally valuable voting bloc.
45.00% - The deplorable people the GOP were for years too worried to alienate, are now taking control of the party.
The Southern Strategy was politically effective at consolidating a new GOP coalition.
40.00% - Northern Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act; Southern Democrats left over it and the South went Republican — that's documented history, separate from whatever motivated each individual voter.
35.00% - LBJ said passing the Civil Rights Act would lose Democrats the South for a generation — he was right, and that's historical fact, not a Southern Strategy conspiracy theory.
25.00% - Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, HUD — all LBJ's legacy; the modern Democratic Party has been defending and expanding that welfare state ever since.
37.93% - The deplorable people the GOP were for years too worried to alienate, are now taking control of the party.
31.03% - The GOP cynically made common cause with the most racist elements of the country.
31.03% - Cultural chauvinists are an electorally valuable voting bloc.
100.00% - The Southern Strategy was politically effective at consolidating a new GOP coalition.
0.00% - The Southern Strategy was politically effective.
50.00% - Decapitation (military strategy)