Just a minor point of clarification, Mississippi was still in the process of flipping from a Democratic stronghold to a Republican one in 1970. The southern strategy hadn’t taken full hold at that point.
I specifically didn’t spell it ‘republiQan’ since back then it was just standard bible-thumping, women-hating racists. They hadn’t lost their damned minds just yet.
Back then in addition to all those things, they supported a liberal economic policy. George Wallace l, for example, supported the New Deal through and through, and progressive tax policies
Just a minor point of clarification, Mississippi was still in the process of flipping from a Democratic stronghold to a Republican one in 1970. The southern strategy hadn’t taken full hold at that point.
Totally true, and it’s also true that they’re the exact same southern white conservatives of today’s Republican party
Yup. Same shitheels, different color scheme and animal mascot.
I specifically didn’t spell it ‘republiQan’ since back then it was just standard bible-thumping, women-hating racists. They hadn’t lost their damned minds just yet.
Back then in addition to all those things, they supported a liberal economic policy. George Wallace l, for example, supported the New Deal through and through, and progressive tax policies