Those same conservatives happily supported the Southern Strategy which is what this sentence references. One political party made this a basis for their platfor

Those same conservatives happily supported the Southern Strategy which is what this sentence references. One political party made this a basis for their platform for decades. These are the results of that strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#:~:text=In%20American%20politics%2C%20the%20Southern,to%20racism%20against%20African%20Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#:~:text=In%2....