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Cover Story: Time for Kerry to Step Up on Haiti
“Substantial Negro support is not necessary to national Republican victory,” said Kevin Phillips, the mastermind behind Nixon’s Southern Strategy, at the time. “The GOP can build a winning coalition without Negro Votes. Indeed, Negro-Democratic mutual identification was a major source of Democratic loss, and Republican Party or (George Wallace’s) American Independent Party profit, in many…
"Substantial Negro support is not necessary to national Republican victory," said Kevin Phillips, the mastermind behind Nixon's Southern Strategy, at the time. "The GOP can build…
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