DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic<p>Architect of the Radical Right</p><p>“The South is the cradle of Modern <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatism</span></a></p><p>This, too, may come as a surprise, so entrenched is the origin myth of the far-westerners Barry <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Goldwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goldwater</span></a>, Richard <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a>, and Ronald <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> as leaders of a <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/SunBelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SunBelt</span></a> realignment and forerunners of today’s polarizing <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a>. But each of those politicians had his own “southern strategy,” playing to white backlash against the <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> revolution—“hunting where the ducks are,” as Goldwater explained—though it was encrypted in the states’-rights ideology that has been vital to southern <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>”</p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/RadicalRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalRight</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/rightwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rightwing</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-architect-of-the-radical-right/528672/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/magazine/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2017/07/the-architect-of-the-radical-right/528672/</span></a></p>