Ted Cruz and wife harrassed

[Benton]

(10-01-2018, 04:09 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You forget, the parties switched during the President Goldwater's terms. Even though members of my family have been Democrats and politically active for generation.

WTS, I'm not sure what it has to do with the OP.  

The Emerging Republican Majority wasn't too far off. It wasn't completely spot on, but I don't think Phillips could account for global cultural changes that were coming, or technological changes. But either way, he pretty well picked the transition of several states to backing GOP candidates, much of it due to race.

From a 1970’s article on how the GOP was going to turn things around.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/17/archives/nixons-southern-strategy-its-all-in-the-charts.html

Quote:Phillips had one conspicuous campaign success—the urging of an Outer South Strategy aimed at capturing Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, as opposed to the Deep South Strategy that had carried Wallace territory for Goldwater in 1964, but at the cost of frightening away mil lions of potential voters else where.

“My argument was this: Your outer Southerners who live in the Ozark and Appala chian mountain ranges and in the Piedmont upcountry—and now in urban‐suburban Florida and Texas—have always had different interests than the Negrophobe plantation owners of the Black Belt. This is a less extreme conservative group. It adheres with other Republican constituen cies across the country and can be appealed to without fragmenting the coalition. When you are after political converts, start with the less extreme and wait for the extremists to come into line when their alternatives collapse.”

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But it was a Janus‐like ma jority, Phillips asserts, and the side facing left developed a liberal over‐thrust dispropor tionate to the ethnic and geo graphic realities that under lay the coalition. A new ethnic disturbance—the emergence of the Negro‐Latino—finally shattered it. The Democratic party, veteran accumulator of minorities that it was, tried to accumulate by rote the Negro minority and trumpeted its cause through the tried formulae of patronage for its spokesmen, government aid, social planning and bureau cratic intervention. But since the grievances of the colored minorities were caused in part by the exploitation and exclu sion practiced against them by older Democratic consti tuencies, something had to give, and did. The two bul warks of the old coalition, working‐class Catholics and the descendants of the Con federacy, began to defect from of its identification with the newcomers.
These defectors have not yet lodged permanently in the suspect G.O.P. Many of them are in way stations—the Con servative party of New York, the Wallace movement. But they have left the Democrats and Phillips feels they have no place to go in the end but the Republican party. Hence, the emerging Republican ma jority that will dominate American politics until the year 2004.