History of the United States II / Unit 18 USH2 2583 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Southern Strategy
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The idea
Nixon's southern strategy of nineteen sixty-eight, entry 2125 records, reached White southern and northern blue-collar voters, the silent majority, as the Democratic coalition of unit eleven broke apart.
In practice
Wallace's thirteen and a half percent, the votes the strategy sought.
Where people slip
Entry 2125 calls it the third realignment the course records, after eighteen ninety-six and nineteen thirty-two.
Your place on the trail
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