Trump's Southern Regions Strategy

Historians like me owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Trump. He is the spectacularly-coifed embodiment the Republican Party's id, the avatar of the party's dark forces which have been swirling since the late 1960s, and with the volume turned up to 11. As such, he makes my job of explaining the GOP's transformation from the Age of Eisenhower to the Age of the Tea Party so much easier.

The through-lines are pretty familiar by now: Nixon began the process of turning the GOP into the Party of Angry White People with what became known as the "Southern Strategy." Stoke the racial animosities of white voters angry at the civil rights movement, and the once solidly Democratic South can become solidly Republican.

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