Featured image: from the article ‘The politics of racial division’: Trump borrows Nixon’s ‘southern strategy‘.
BOOKS
Dan T. Carter: The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics.
Joseph Crespino:
- Strom Thurmond’s America: A History.
- In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution.
Ian Haney López: Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.
Angie Maxwell & Todd Shields: The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics.
Edward H. Miller: Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy.
ARTICLES
Kevin Kruse: Twitter thread on the history of the Southern Strategy.
Ian Haney López: How the GOP became the “White Man’s Party”: From Nixon to Rand, Republicans have banked on the unerring support of Southern white men. Here’s how it came to be.
Angie Maxwell:
- What we get wrong about the Southern strategy: It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.
- Reversing the Southern Strategy: Even small victories are a sign of huge progress. Biden’s squeaker win in Georgia wasn’t a one-off. It was the result of years of hard work that’s changing America.
- Political scientist Angie Maxwell on countering the ‘Long Southern Strategy’.
- What Makes Southern Democrats Unique.
Edward H. Miller: When Texas fell to the wingnuts: The secret history of the Southern strategy, modern conservatism and the Lone Star State.
Logan E. Sawyer III: Originalism from the Soft Southern Strategy to the New Right: The Constitutional Politics of Sam Ervin Jr.
Daniel Strauss: ‘The politics of racial division’: Trump borrows Nixon’s ‘southern strategy’.
Wikipedia: The Southern Strategy.