found online by Raymond
From Manifesto Joe at Texas Blues:
It’s hard for me to spell his name with the “T.” “Rump” is more descriptive.
For nearly 50 years, the Republican Party has leaned on a “Southern strategy,” as it was called during Richard Nixon’s successful run for the presidency in 1968. That year the choice for rednecks was between Tricky Dick and George Wallace, and a good many chose the latter. But the strategy was articulated, and it had been there already. Recall that Barry Goldwater had his main electoral success in the Deep South, where he won five states in an otherwise disastrous try for the presidency in 1964. The reason was his overt appeal to segregationists with his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.