"In his decade as the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump has been steadily reshaping the Southern Strategy into something different than it was. It’s still about fear and resentment, but the relative importance of anti-Black resentment and anti-immigrant resentment has flipped. And there’s good reason to believe the new strategy will endure well after Trump departs."

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“'The whole secret to politics,' Nixon aide Kevin Phillips, the architect of the 'Southern Strategy,' told author Gary Wills in 1968, is 'who hates who.' But hatred is not merely organic; while it arises on its own, it can also be cultivated and directed."

~ Paul Waldman

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The New Southern Strategy

Encouraging racial division was the GOP strategy for half a century. Now it's all immigration.

^{Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)}