The writing was on the wall for Republican party policy when it sold its morals for votes with Nixon/Goldwater's Southern Strategy by courting the racist Southe

The writing was on the wall for Republican party policy when it sold its morals for votes with Nixon/Goldwater's Southern Strategy by courting the racist Southern Democrats after the Civil Rights Act/Voting Rights Act passed. [1] Thus the (originally) pro-Union anti-Slavery Republican party married its "limited government" conservative midwest base with a "states rights" southern democrat base. Now the old guard Republicans are dead or retired and the existing Republicans were made from the mold the old Republicans created. I think Republican party policy today would be significantly different if the Southern Democrats had never joined. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-souther...