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The Laziest Arguments on the Southern Strategy: Wikipedia

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The Laziest Arguments on the Southern Strategy: Wikipedia
A Definitive Example of the Political Mythology of Wikipedia
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Thank God for Columbus
Columbus didn’t discover the New World—he started it.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Laziest Arguments on the Southern Strategy: Wikipedia

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The Laziest Arguments on the Southern Strategy: Wikipedia
A Definitive Example of the Political Mythology of Wikipedia
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October 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Among Those Debasing Themselves: Leftist Historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Among Those Debasing Themselves: Leftist Historians
How they misinterpret the past in order to block out the reality of the present.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Now more than ever, the lies of history must be confronted. 🗃️

Britannica and the "Southern Strategy:"

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The Laziest Arguments on the Southern Strategy: Britannica
A deep dive on this oft-cited Political Mythology regarding the Republican Southern Strategy related to Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan.
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September 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Laziest Arguments of the Party Switch Myth: 🗃️
The Laziest Arguments of the Party Switch Myth: Students of History
Editor’s Note: The following piece is a departure from our customary focus on academic works.
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August 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
In the vocabulary of modern American politics, few phrases have been more defiled than “law and order.” 🗃️
Law and Order: The Great Ally of the Civil Rights Movement
The historical illiteracy of what ended segregation.
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August 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
While Jimmy Carter is remembered simply as a pro-civil rights progressive, his political proximity to George Wallace were incomparably closer than Wallace was to Nixon. 🗃 readingthescore.substack.com/p/jimmy-cart...
Jimmy Carter: The Real Southern Strategy
Part 2: Alongside George Wallace, he was pivotal to the real Southern Strategy of the Democrats.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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"As racism became untenable on the national stage, Democrats reinvented their image, casting off their segregationist past without facing accountability.

Jimmy Carter exemplifies this sleight of hand." 🗃 readingthescore.substack.com/p/read-the-s...
January 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A cornerstone of the Party Switch Myth relies on a provably false quotation: 🗃 readingthescore.substack.com/p/upside-dow...
Upside-Down History: The Southern Strategy is Built on Fraud
Part 1: A cornerstone of the Party Switch Myth relies on a provably false quotation.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A cornerstone of the Party Switch Myth relies on a provably false quotation: 🗃 readingthescore.substack.com/p/upside-dow...
Upside-Down History: The Southern Strategy is Built on Fraud
Part 1: A cornerstone of the Party Switch Myth relies on a provably false quotation.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A Confederate colony in Brazil was once visited by Jimmy Carter 🗃: readingthescore.substack.com/p/sidenote-i...
Sidenote: In 1972 Jimmy Carter Visited a Confederate Colony in Brazil
This is just a brief Sidenote…
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January 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"As racism became untenable on the national stage, Democrats reinvented their image, casting off their segregationist past without facing accountability.

Jimmy Carter exemplifies this sleight of hand." 🗃 readingthescore.substack.com/p/read-the-s...
January 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
How Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party squeezed the last ounces of political juice from racial injustice and got away with it 🗃: readingthescore.substack.com/p/read-the-s...
Read The Score: Jimmy Carter
How Carter and the Democratic Party squeezed the last ounces of political juice from racial injustice and got away with it.
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January 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The Wrong Southern Strategy: Academia's Self-Incriminating Standards for "The Party Switch" readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-wrong-...
The Wrong Southern Strategy
Academia's Self-Incriminating Standards for "The Party Switch"
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August 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
The low-res history of Heather Cox Richardson: readingthescore.substack.com/p/heather-co...
Heather Cox Richardson Fails the Mississippi Civil Rights Murder Test
Heather Cox Richardson's Ongoing Lo-Res History
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January 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Jimmy Carter had a remarkable rise from unknown Georgia candidate for governor in 1970 to leading the Democratic ticket by 1976.
May 27, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Democrats need to contend with their own Southern Strategy: readingthescore.substack.com/p/heather-co...

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Heather Cox Richardson Fails the Mississippi Civil Rights Murder Test
Heather Cox Richardson's Ongoing Lo-Res History
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June 26, 2024 at 2:47 PM
The Left lies about Columbus, but why? readingthescore.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Columbus
Columbus didn’t discover the New World—he started it.
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October 14, 2024 at 8:46 PM
The Wrong Southern Strategy: Academia's Self-Incriminating Standards for "The Party Switch" readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-wrong-...
The Wrong Southern Strategy
Academia's Self-Incriminating Standards for "The Party Switch"
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August 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Rachel Maddow’s Ultra problem: readingthescore.substack.com/p/rachel-mad...
Rachel Maddow’s Ultra Problem
Part 1
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August 9, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Which 1988 campaign used Willie Horton and race in a destructive desperate attempt to instigate fear and animosity? There is a clear verdict 🗃️: readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The Truth about the 1988 Election and Willie Horton
Part 2: How a murderer turned into a black murderer
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August 1, 2024 at 4:29 PM
The Truth about the 1988 Election and Willie Horton. How the Left gets everything wrong: readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The Truth about the 1988 Election and Willie Horton
Part 1: How the Left gets everything wrong
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July 30, 2024 at 5:51 PM
The Party Switch Myth claims Reagan's "states' rights" speech was part of a "Southern Strategy." 🗃

This allegation was a transparently cynical racial tactic from a desperate campaign, a tactic they subsequently repudiated: readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The Truth about Reagan’s 1980 Campaign
Part 3: Jimmy Carter’s Cynical Racial Counter
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July 23, 2024 at 6:52 PM
🗃️ We should stop pretending Lee Atwater's infamous Abstraction means what Democrats want it to mean. It objectively doesn’t: open.substack.com/pub/readingt...
Lee Atwater and the Left’s Southern Strategy Suicide
Part 1
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July 19, 2024 at 6:35 PM