He supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Nixon had an excellent record on civil rights. The vast majority of these people were white. Nixon scorned the hippies, champions of the drug culture such as Timothy Leary, and draft-dodgers who fled to Canada. His target was radical activists such as Abbie Hoffman and Bill Ayers. Nixon’s references to drugs and law and order in 1968 were quite obviously directed at the antiwar protesters who had just disrupted the Democratic Convention in Chicago. ” Clearly there is no suggestion here of race. One popular Republican slogan of the period described the Democrats as the party of “ acid, amnesty and abortion. Yet when Nixon ran for president in 1968 the main issue was the Vietnam War. Progressives insist that Nixon’s appeals to drugs and law and order were coded racist messaging. This seems unlikely, but let’s consider the possibility.
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Really? Is it plausible that Nixon figured out how to communicate with Deep South racists in a secret language? Do Deep South bigots, like dogs, have some kind of heightened awareness of racial messages - messages that are somehow indecipherable to the media and the rest of the country? Evidently he spoke to them in a kind of code. So progressives insist that Nixon made a racist “dog whistle” appeal to Deep South voters. One might expect that a racist appeal to the Deep South actually would have to be made, and to be understood as such. Yes, this story is in the textbooks and on the history channel and regularly repeated in the media, but is it true? First, no one has ever given a single example of an explicitly racist pitch by Nixon during his long career. And now, according to a recent article in The New Republic, President Trump is the “true heir, the beneficiary of the policies the party has pursued for more than half a century.” According to this narrative, advanced by progressive historians, Nixon orchestrated a party switch on civil rights by converting the racists in the Democratic Party - the infamous Dixiecrats - into Republicans. The Democratic Party’s claim to be the party of the good guys, while the Republicans are the party of the bad guys, hinges on the tale of Richard Nixon’s so-called Southern Strategy.
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