This is one of your most important pieces of work, Donny Boy. Pay attention, People.
Mark Felt, butthurt federal employee, leaked to the press leading to 'investigations'. James Comey, Chris Wray or ANY OTHER PERSON IN OUR EXECUTIVE SERVICE LEADER position today. Fundamentally corrupt. All of them.
The Democrats are the party of Slavery, KKK , Jim Crow laws and against civil rights. Your article points out several truths: the press has always been biased, our country is moving left, and elections when not rigged, were responsive to voters feelings at the times.
Your factual analysis hits the target. If it weren't for the democrats and race hustlers push through their media hangers-on the donkey party would not survive. Class warfare is their bliss. Lately it seems race war is their goal.
The Red Wave in the South didn't really take place until Ronald Reagan whipped the pants off either the second or third worst POTUS in history, Jimmuh Cahtuh. Sky high interest rates, double digit unemployment, and the Iran fiasco had a lot to do with that.
I now have the impression that our War Pigs rushed out of Afghanistan so that they could rush even further into Ukraine and keep another war going for 20 years. I have no pronouns to express my disgust at the woke U.S. military leadership.
"Besides, he knew was the South had other issues..." Seeing as he made a lot of them happen, that strikes me as the kind of "experiential, hands-on" knowledge too many fools are after these days. Reminds me of Micah 7:3:
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
the prince and the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
thus they weave it together.
The problem is that most of the Rs who replaced the Ds were drawn from the bottom of the same barrel.
It was a happy day when the state and local conservatives in Mississippi finally became republicans. It was an embarrassment to vote in the democrat primary (we declare which primary we want to vote in on primary Election Day). Some counties still have not flipped and the stigma remains.
If you have never read the book "The South Was Right" you might want to pick it up or order it the next time you are in a bookstore. it pretty much deals with what is being brought up in this article.
One thing I am wondering about is why and how the U.S. political media, in particular, is so left-wing and has been for decades. There was a time when the education system was more conservative and of a higher quality. So I don't think I can blame decades of journo leftiness on their education. Where does this nasty strain of leftism/socialism/Communism come from in your country? Some of it came from Herbert Marcuse, I think, and his followers but that does not explain this leftist strain before the Second World War. I must say I am always surprised by this in your Land of the Free. I expect commies where I live, but not so much in your country.
It’s a mystery to me as well. I sometimes think it is all about power - and those at the top of the socialist/commie parties have massive power (and many also have short life spans).
Read “Witness”, by Whitaker Chambers, a one-time Soviet agent who turned to God and helped to expose Algier Hiss. Chambers’ story reveals the incomprehensible depth and breadth of the Communist apparatus operating within all levels of the US government waaaay back then. It’s only gotten worse, and now is fully turned against the US citizen.
Thank you Suzie for introducing folks to 'Witness.' It was Richard Nixon, while in Congress, who shepherded the testimony of Whitaker Chambers through the hearings. It is all explained in the book and how he and others kept Chambers alive to testify.
Again, I would like to vote for 2 choices in your daily poll. Of course we now can see that segregationists haven't died out - the pendulum has swung again!
Thanks so much for this timely piece. I can't remember how many years ago, probably the late 90s, but I got curious about the Nixon Southern Strategy and looked into it. Of course your's is more detailed but generally I found the same. I don't recall where but last week, might have been at American Prospect a Lefty E-magazine that started showing up in my in box, repeated the so called Southern Strategy (SS) describing it as Nixon gleaning only the most racist elitists for his new Republican Minority Hating RNC, knowing that this would broaden the Republic appeal to all Haters. I will download this and use it for a cudgel whenever I see it raise up again. Oh it's so true, "The Lies," have been piling up and it's past time they go!
I am always surprised, maybe even mystified, when people still willingly vote for the Democrats. Do people not know their history or is it just overlooked because enough voters hate the Republicans (which is understandable at times)? I come from a multi-party system and I have switched up my vote over the years depending on a particular party's platform and what appealed to me. Of course, in Canada there is only left and lighter left. I am sad to say I voted for the NDP (socialists) as a university student and that was due to stupidity. I think having only two parties gets voters too entrenched in their habits and hatreds. A multiparty system also gives fledgling parties a chance to grow and eventually govern. That has happened in my province. I participated in voting for a fledgling party over the years that is now the governing party. I like that. I do not know how you, as Americans, get untrenched. Both sides seem to be so dug in I don't know how you can come together. Good column, Don.
The multi-party system may be as you say but it's also dividing the vote has brought in Communist/Socialist Governments that are nearly impossible to get out, Canada and GB are 2 examples. Will a real Conservative Government ever return to either?
I am still in favour of a multi-party system and yes it does divide voters. It at least gives us the illusion of more choice. But we are first past-the-post system in Canada and we have kicked the governing bums out many times. If Canadians are content with a particular party they will keep voting for them for usually three terms and then it's time for a change. This happened in recent history with Trudeau Sr. (Liberal), Stephen Harper (Tory) and Brian Mulroney (Tory). Canada, though, is a left of centre country. No, a real conservative government won't return any time soon to the Conservatives in the U.K. or Canada because they are the equivalent of RINOs. They are political squishes and fall down at every turn because they have no spines. They are also terribly afraid of the media (overall left in Canada) and cave almost every time on conservative positions due to this irrational fear. It annoys Conservative voters to no end because they do not represent us. So back to my theme that basically all politicians, left and right, do not represent their voters in western liberal democracies.
The group that really needs to understand this great part of our history either can’t read or have trouble understanding what it means. Both can be traced to our very bad public school system, which has found new ways to make their students drones of Communism.
Whenever Watergate is mentioned, "Bob Woodward's Sins Of Omission" ought to be mentioned, too. In 2016, James Rosen published this expose' of Pentagon intelligence agent Woodward's role in torpedoing President Nixon and re-purposing the work of journ-o-lists in the United States. It's a great read: https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-rosen/bob-woodwards-sins-omission/
As you can see, the Northeast and Midwest grew, but did not even double in population over 80 years, whereas the South grew by 3 times, and the West by more than that. Additionally, their percentages of the total population diminished, as South and West grew.
Obviously, there were other factors like population density/crowding, expansion of industrialization and job opportunity, the West was positively impacted by things like Hollywood, Silicon Valley (later, obviously) and the like.
But what on earth would draw people to the OBVIOUSLY RACIST South??
It was not simply changing attitudes in the country, though that was obviously a factor. But, new immigrants arrived on our shores, existing populations moved, and even the "Great Migration" of Blacks fleeing the segregationist South slowed, and as of 1980, have started to return.
Having said all that - the difference an air conditioning unit makes for making life comfortable for living in states like Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, George, South Carolina and Florida cannot be overstated. Ditto states like Arizona, New Mexico, etc. (Though, one generally doesn't have to argue why someone would move to Arizona...)
It also calls into question the veracity of the "Southern Strategy". Given the huge influx of new people into the South over the preceding 40 years, there's little chance the "Southern Strategy" could even work. What, all those former Northerners and Midwesterners who sought a milder climate, combined with the immigrants from other countries...turned racist so that they could vote Republican all of a sudden?
I've often thought that. Those populations couldn't possibly grow without air conditioning. Nothing would get done because it would be too humid and hot. I am saying this not to diminish Don's column, but to note that you can't live in that hot places without relief from the heat. Every time I watch Gone With the Wind especially where Melanie is giving birth, I always think that I couldn't manage in a climate like that without air conditioning. (I apologize for the stereotype.) I am far more used to cold, snow and ice, but I also know you can die from the cold and you need to be prepared.
Exactly. I grew up in the deep South (Louisiana) and it's HOT. To this day, I joke about living in a climate controlled environment (live in Virginia now) and there's very few days out of the year where either heat or AC isn't running! (I'd go nuts in power-deprived Europe right now...)
And, I agree with Don's column, as well. I provided the statistics and information more as additional proof that it wasn't a bunch of racists who switched parties. Overtime, people's opinions change, and they evolve, but also, a new generation comes along, and on top of that, in the case of the South and West, the entire demographic changed. I have always questioned the "Southern Strategy" again, because I lived there. I wasn't even born for Nixon's first election).
This is one of your most important pieces of work, Donny Boy. Pay attention, People.
Mark Felt, butthurt federal employee, leaked to the press leading to 'investigations'. James Comey, Chris Wray or ANY OTHER PERSON IN OUR EXECUTIVE SERVICE LEADER position today. Fundamentally corrupt. All of them.
Woodward was CIA. Do not forget it.
The Democrats are the party of Slavery, KKK , Jim Crow laws and against civil rights. Your article points out several truths: the press has always been biased, our country is moving left, and elections when not rigged, were responsive to voters feelings at the times.
Your factual analysis hits the target. If it weren't for the democrats and race hustlers push through their media hangers-on the donkey party would not survive. Class warfare is their bliss. Lately it seems race war is their goal.
The Red Wave in the South didn't really take place until Ronald Reagan whipped the pants off either the second or third worst POTUS in history, Jimmuh Cahtuh. Sky high interest rates, double digit unemployment, and the Iran fiasco had a lot to do with that.
Speaking of Strategy:
China brokers deal to restore Diplomatic Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Embassies between the 2 countries coming soon.
U.S./D.C. Warmongers start and accelerate war in the Ukraine at risk of Nuclear War.
See the difference. ? Even the Communist Dictatorship in China looks good in comparison to the crazed Pirates in the DC Cesspool.
I now have the impression that our War Pigs rushed out of Afghanistan so that they could rush even further into Ukraine and keep another war going for 20 years. I have no pronouns to express my disgust at the woke U.S. military leadership.
"Besides, he knew was the South had other issues..." Seeing as he made a lot of them happen, that strikes me as the kind of "experiential, hands-on" knowledge too many fools are after these days. Reminds me of Micah 7:3:
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
The problem is that most of the Rs who replaced the Ds were drawn from the bottom of the same barrel.
It was a happy day when the state and local conservatives in Mississippi finally became republicans. It was an embarrassment to vote in the democrat primary (we declare which primary we want to vote in on primary Election Day). Some counties still have not flipped and the stigma remains.
If you have never read the book "The South Was Right" you might want to pick it up or order it the next time you are in a bookstore. it pretty much deals with what is being brought up in this article.
One thing I am wondering about is why and how the U.S. political media, in particular, is so left-wing and has been for decades. There was a time when the education system was more conservative and of a higher quality. So I don't think I can blame decades of journo leftiness on their education. Where does this nasty strain of leftism/socialism/Communism come from in your country? Some of it came from Herbert Marcuse, I think, and his followers but that does not explain this leftist strain before the Second World War. I must say I am always surprised by this in your Land of the Free. I expect commies where I live, but not so much in your country.
It’s a mystery to me as well. I sometimes think it is all about power - and those at the top of the socialist/commie parties have massive power (and many also have short life spans).
Read “Witness”, by Whitaker Chambers, a one-time Soviet agent who turned to God and helped to expose Algier Hiss. Chambers’ story reveals the incomprehensible depth and breadth of the Communist apparatus operating within all levels of the US government waaaay back then. It’s only gotten worse, and now is fully turned against the US citizen.
Thank you Suzie for introducing folks to 'Witness.' It was Richard Nixon, while in Congress, who shepherded the testimony of Whitaker Chambers through the hearings. It is all explained in the book and how he and others kept Chambers alive to testify.
Thank you. I will get that book.
Again, I would like to vote for 2 choices in your daily poll. Of course we now can see that segregationists haven't died out - the pendulum has swung again!
Very good yet again! 👏 Not all racists were segregationists. Not all segregationists were racists. Only 99.9%.
Thanks so much for this timely piece. I can't remember how many years ago, probably the late 90s, but I got curious about the Nixon Southern Strategy and looked into it. Of course your's is more detailed but generally I found the same. I don't recall where but last week, might have been at American Prospect a Lefty E-magazine that started showing up in my in box, repeated the so called Southern Strategy (SS) describing it as Nixon gleaning only the most racist elitists for his new Republican Minority Hating RNC, knowing that this would broaden the Republic appeal to all Haters. I will download this and use it for a cudgel whenever I see it raise up again. Oh it's so true, "The Lies," have been piling up and it's past time they go!
I am always surprised, maybe even mystified, when people still willingly vote for the Democrats. Do people not know their history or is it just overlooked because enough voters hate the Republicans (which is understandable at times)? I come from a multi-party system and I have switched up my vote over the years depending on a particular party's platform and what appealed to me. Of course, in Canada there is only left and lighter left. I am sad to say I voted for the NDP (socialists) as a university student and that was due to stupidity. I think having only two parties gets voters too entrenched in their habits and hatreds. A multiparty system also gives fledgling parties a chance to grow and eventually govern. That has happened in my province. I participated in voting for a fledgling party over the years that is now the governing party. I like that. I do not know how you, as Americans, get untrenched. Both sides seem to be so dug in I don't know how you can come together. Good column, Don.
The multi-party system may be as you say but it's also dividing the vote has brought in Communist/Socialist Governments that are nearly impossible to get out, Canada and GB are 2 examples. Will a real Conservative Government ever return to either?
I am still in favour of a multi-party system and yes it does divide voters. It at least gives us the illusion of more choice. But we are first past-the-post system in Canada and we have kicked the governing bums out many times. If Canadians are content with a particular party they will keep voting for them for usually three terms and then it's time for a change. This happened in recent history with Trudeau Sr. (Liberal), Stephen Harper (Tory) and Brian Mulroney (Tory). Canada, though, is a left of centre country. No, a real conservative government won't return any time soon to the Conservatives in the U.K. or Canada because they are the equivalent of RINOs. They are political squishes and fall down at every turn because they have no spines. They are also terribly afraid of the media (overall left in Canada) and cave almost every time on conservative positions due to this irrational fear. It annoys Conservative voters to no end because they do not represent us. So back to my theme that basically all politicians, left and right, do not represent their voters in western liberal democracies.
After three terms, I pray that we kick Justin out on his ass.
The group that really needs to understand this great part of our history either can’t read or have trouble understanding what it means. Both can be traced to our very bad public school system, which has found new ways to make their students drones of Communism.
Whenever Watergate is mentioned, "Bob Woodward's Sins Of Omission" ought to be mentioned, too. In 2016, James Rosen published this expose' of Pentagon intelligence agent Woodward's role in torpedoing President Nixon and re-purposing the work of journ-o-lists in the United States. It's a great read: https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-rosen/bob-woodwards-sins-omission/
I think the role of the...air conditioner is vastly under-rated, or completely skipped in the way the South evolved. Seriously.
If you look at the population change: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/popchange-data-text.html
Compare the populations of the country, and the breakdown of the 4 Regions:
Northeast, Midwest, South and West (numbers below will be population/percentage of the US population)
1940: 36M/27%, 40M/30%, 41M/31%, 14M/10.6% (all numbers rounded off).
2020: 57M/17.2%, 69M/20.8%, 126M/38%, 79M/23.8%.
As you can see, the Northeast and Midwest grew, but did not even double in population over 80 years, whereas the South grew by 3 times, and the West by more than that. Additionally, their percentages of the total population diminished, as South and West grew.
Obviously, there were other factors like population density/crowding, expansion of industrialization and job opportunity, the West was positively impacted by things like Hollywood, Silicon Valley (later, obviously) and the like.
But what on earth would draw people to the OBVIOUSLY RACIST South??
It was not simply changing attitudes in the country, though that was obviously a factor. But, new immigrants arrived on our shores, existing populations moved, and even the "Great Migration" of Blacks fleeing the segregationist South slowed, and as of 1980, have started to return.
Having said all that - the difference an air conditioning unit makes for making life comfortable for living in states like Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, George, South Carolina and Florida cannot be overstated. Ditto states like Arizona, New Mexico, etc. (Though, one generally doesn't have to argue why someone would move to Arizona...)
It also calls into question the veracity of the "Southern Strategy". Given the huge influx of new people into the South over the preceding 40 years, there's little chance the "Southern Strategy" could even work. What, all those former Northerners and Midwesterners who sought a milder climate, combined with the immigrants from other countries...turned racist so that they could vote Republican all of a sudden?
I've often thought that. Those populations couldn't possibly grow without air conditioning. Nothing would get done because it would be too humid and hot. I am saying this not to diminish Don's column, but to note that you can't live in that hot places without relief from the heat. Every time I watch Gone With the Wind especially where Melanie is giving birth, I always think that I couldn't manage in a climate like that without air conditioning. (I apologize for the stereotype.) I am far more used to cold, snow and ice, but I also know you can die from the cold and you need to be prepared.
Exactly. I grew up in the deep South (Louisiana) and it's HOT. To this day, I joke about living in a climate controlled environment (live in Virginia now) and there's very few days out of the year where either heat or AC isn't running! (I'd go nuts in power-deprived Europe right now...)
And, I agree with Don's column, as well. I provided the statistics and information more as additional proof that it wasn't a bunch of racists who switched parties. Overtime, people's opinions change, and they evolve, but also, a new generation comes along, and on top of that, in the case of the South and West, the entire demographic changed. I have always questioned the "Southern Strategy" again, because I lived there. I wasn't even born for Nixon's first election).