Why do people stick to this B.S.?? Its a myth. The Southern strategy didn't happen.

Nixon won the whole nation but Mass.  So did he appeal did he have to appeal to all the other state's racism? Every other state in the nation found Nixon an appealing candidate but the only reason the south came along is racism?. This is such a ridiculous line of reasoning.

It is further exacerbated by the fact that while the South voted for a few Republican presidents, they were still electing Democrat Governors, Senators and Representatives.  In 1994 when Newt Gingrich and the GOP took back congress from 40 years of Democratic rule, the south was STILL solidly democratic. This was 30 years after the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So NO it didn't have a thing to do with racism, the civil rights act, or the Southern Strategy.

Additionally Blacks voted for Republicans prior to WW2. But started  going solidly Democratic after Truman desegregated the military in1948.