Quote from drjekyllus:
Huh? You implied that Bush somehow used racism to win in 2004. You also said they apologized for this racism. When pressed about the apology, it turns out the apology had to with Nixon. What kind of screwed up logic is that? What did Nixon have to do with the 2004 election? Get real. In 1976 Jimmy Carter won the south. Maybe that means he is a racist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1976
The racist argument is really getting old and tired. I think the only racist left in the America are democrats. They certainly seem to have race on their mind. Nonstop.
My point is and it is very simple is that the GOP devised and used a strategy known as the "southern strategy", it started with I think Goldwater and was perfected by Nixon and was continued to some degree by both Bushes.
The map shows it worked.
Before 1964, no Republican had a snowballs chance in hell to win in the south. The race based soutern strategy borrowed a chapter from the race based, post war/reconstuction, race based Democratic strategy of appealing to southern whites by being anti civil rights and against any attempt to weaken the south's segregationist laws.
You are silly to say the only racists are Dems, to wit, consider what a county RepubliKKKan CHAIRMAN of McCain's Virginia Campaign wrote, ACTUALLY WROTE IN A NEWSPAPER: