Thank God for Columbus Columbus didn’t discover the New World—he started it.

Happy Columbus Day!

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The Laziest Arguments on the Southern Strategy: Wikipedia A Definitive Example of the Political Mythology of Wikipedia

The Laziest Arguments on the Southern Strategy: Wikipedia

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The Charlie Kirk Test: Do You Believe in Truth Examining the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk and how dangerous political lies can escalate into violence, revealing the critical importance of truth in public discourse.

The Charlie Kirk Test: Do You Believe in Truth

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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.

Among Those Debasing Themselves: Leftist Historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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.

Now more than ever, the lies of history must be confronted. 🗃️

Britannica and the "Southern Strategy:"

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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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Law and Order: The Great Ally of the Civil Rights Movement The historical illiteracy of what ended segregation.

In the vocabulary of modern American politics, few phrases have been more defiled than “law and order.” 🗃️

Y: Yes. I think we still say that you're not going to have any progress in this nation until you have political reform in the South. That was another thing that I didn't like, that I really held against Lyndon Johnson, more than Viet Nam. That was with all of the enthusiasm around Selma, of some 900 counties that qualified for voting rights supervision under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, by the time he went out of office fewer than a hundred--in fact it was just about 104, I think, by the time he left–had any kind of federal presence in them…one of the ways he got it passed and one of the deals that was made to get that Bill passed with Richard Russell and [James 0.] Eastland that they didn't have to worry that he was going to see how it was enforced, because Sunflower County, Eastland's County, was one of those counties with the most blatant denial of voting rights. It was way, way late before we could force them to have any kind of federal referee or voting supervision in Sunflower County because that was Eastland's County in Mississippi. The same thing was true here in Georgia. We didn't have any federal referees in Georgia, and I always thought that was Richard Russell's influence. We could get them in Alabama because Alabama was under Wallace and out with the Administration. We could also get them like in Alabama even, if there are nine counties in a congressional district, you might get a dozen federal referees in a dozen counties in Alabama, but you would only have three in the black belt counties. So they'd let you get the registration up to about a third and then you'd find it difficult to get federal referees after that. There'd always be some excuse. We felt like they were playing games with us, that they really did not want the reform of the South. B: Now the "they" here, this must be-- Y: Lyndon Johnson and the Administration.

Looking forward to your book on Doar, but it’s hard to paint the Johnson administration’s relationship to Mississippi civil rights as inspirational. Andrew Young:

A little harsh.

Jimmy Carter: The Real Southern Strategy Part 2: Alongside George Wallace, he was pivotal to the real Southern Strategy of the Democrats.

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’s inauguration for governor of Georgia in 1971. Lester Maddox at his side.

"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...

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.

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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Sidenote: In 1972 Jimmy Carter Visited a Confederate Colony in Brazil This is just a brief Sidenote…

A Confederate colony in Brazil was once visited by Jimmy Carter 🗃: readingthescore.substack.com/p/sidenote-i...

Jimmy Carter’s inauguration for governor of Georgia in 1971. Lester Maddox at his side.

"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...

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.

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...

The Wrong Southern Strategy Academia's Self-Incriminating Standards for "The Party Switch"

The Wrong Southern Strategy: Academia's Self-Incriminating Standards for "The Party Switch" readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-wrong-...

Heather Cox Richardson Fails the Mississippi Civil Rights Murder Test Heather Cox Richardson's Ongoing Lo-Res History

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… the most important source of Horton’s image was thus television news.”

This was based on the number of times the PAC ad was ran and at what time, which was tiny. Proof of this is that the PAC ad was not even the example of racial imagery at the time given by Dems, because it was not well known.

Thank you for the thoughtful response.
1-2. The Bush campaign did disavow the PAC ad but the point made in part 1 still stands: “The exact influence of the Bush campaign on this PAC is debatable but the important factor is what was its true impact? …

The Truth about the 1988 Election and Willie Horton Part 1: How the Left gets everything wrong

Yes, this ad (not from the Bush campaign) is addressed in detail in the previous post: readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

Jimmy Carter had a remarkable rise from unknown Georgia candidate for governor in 1970 to leading the Democratic ticket by 1976.

Heather Cox Richardson Fails the Mississippi Civil Rights Murder Test Heather Cox Richardson's Ongoing Lo-Res History

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Thank God for Columbus Columbus didn’t discover the New World—he started it.

The Left lies about Columbus, but why? readingthescore.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

The Wrong Southern Strategy Academia's Self-Incriminating Standards for "The Party Switch"

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Rachel Maddow’s Ultra Problem Part 1

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The Truth about the 1988 Election and Willie Horton Part 2: How a murderer turned into a black murderer

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 1: How the Left gets everything wrong

The Truth about the 1988 Election and Willie Horton. How the Left gets everything wrong: readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-truth-...