Sentences with phrase «southern white voters»

In the 1968 election the Republican candidate Richard Nixon adopted the southern strategy and this was to try to appeal to the southern white voters due to the fact that they were disenchanted with the now progressive Democrats.

After Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater, Southern white voters began their long exodus from the Democratic Party and African Americans became, once again, captive to one party.

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Sick, I am an educated, young, married, white, Southern, practicing Christian voter.

But the party will only restore its electoral fortunes when it performs better among white collar (C1) and skilled (C2) voters — those most strongly represented in the southern and midlands marginals.

Others have talked about the shift in white southern voters and discussed what changed in the 1960s.

This position appealed to many southern white and northern ethnic voters, especially Catholics.