Reagan' Southern Strategy has been admitted by those who designed and used it, and it worked - Reagan won every Southern state in 1980 except for Georgia, which is where Jimmy Carter was governor before becoming president. Reagan did that by appealing to the Southern segregationist and racist voters. The South has gone for Republican candidates ever since, for state and national offices. You can write your convoluted nonsense until the cows come home, but it is still lies and nonsense.