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The Real Problem with 1968 Election
By Lawrence Hardy of none
The Real Issues of 1968
The Southern Strategy was designed by the Republican Party to ensure that former Vice-President Richard Nixon would win the election of 1968 against Democratic candidate Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey. The political atmosphere of the mid to late sixties centered on two themes the Civil Rights of the African American championed by Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. and the anxiety of the xenophobic southern white who did not want to grant the African American the right to vote. The Southern Strategy was designed by the Republican Party to ensure that former Vice-President Richard Nixon would win the election of 1968 against Democratic candidate Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey. The political atmosphere of the mid to late sixties focused on two predominant themes the Civil Rights of the African American championed by Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. and the plight of anxiety of the xenophobic southern white who did not want to grant the African American the right to vote. The Viet Nam War was only a secondary issue and mostly a distraction. The subsequent riot by those opposing the war at the DNC played into the hands of the Republican strategist adding fuel to the anxiety of xenophobes. On the side, were the Civil Rights activists embolden by a string of legal victories starting with the Warren Court's decision to desegregate the public school (Brown versus the Board of Education). Also supporting the Civil Rights workers were the administrations President John F. Kennedy and later the President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed and signed legislation that included the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1968. To the advantage of the Civil Rights workers were a number of US Supreme Court decisions that mandated an end to segregation to interstate commerce facilities and all facilities regulated by federal commission or receiving federal funding. Historically, for more than a century, the for states of the Confederacy had embraceded the Democrats against Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party, and the Union. Originally this anxiety against Republicans was born out of the need for ante bellum politician to maintain their autocratic lifestyle based slavery and later white supremacy. Failing victory in the Civil War 1861-1865, the former Confederate States set in motion a plan to put an end to all African American advancements and to remove Union troops supporting the African American from the South. Their opportunity came with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as President of the United States in 1876. This election also known as the Compromise of 1877. The politician of former Confederate States in exchange for their support of Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, over Samuel J. Tilden, were rewarded with the removal of all Union Armies from Southern soil thus ending Reconstruction . From thenceforward, the South and the Democratic Party, slowly eroded freedoms of the former slaves with clandestine acts of terrorism and institutionalized deprivation, while imposing an American system of apartheid called Segregation. The culmination of the Compromise of 1877 came in 1896 with the Supreme Court's landmark, precedent-setting decision on case of Plessey versus Ferguson, which legalized segregation on passenger trains and interstate commerce. What followed was a guaranteed second class citizenship for African Americans. Through terrorism and subterfuge the Democratic Southern States had achieved what the Confederate Army could not on the battlefield, a victory over Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. After the Brown versus the Board of Education by the Warren Court in 1956 and later President Kennedy urging to end segregation. Southern Democrats found themselves standing on the precipice. The leadership of their party was steadfastly against their heritage. In 1968, the Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips predicted once the Southern African American citizen received the right to vote, they would show their gratitude to new friends in Kennedy, Johnson and the Democratic Party instead of the ancient alliance of Lincoln and the Republicans. Consequently, assumed Phillips, the negrophobic southern white still attached to Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederacy would seek sanctuary; so why not let that sanctuary be with the Republican Party? Prior to 1948, the Republican Party pandered the Black vote with a series of civil rights a few political appointees. The anti lynching legislation act was successfully filibustered by the so-called Solid South.
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