The last of the old Dixiecrats to retire was John Stennis in 1988 (and of course Storm Thurmond on the Republican side in 2002). But Jim Eastland, the hideous Mississippi segregationist chaired the Judiciary Committee until 1977 for example.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1116444556554317853 …
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That’s not the historian’s narrative at all. What is true is that the GOP goes all in on the race baiters in the 1970 midterms (a Harry Dent strategy) & after it flops, you see that strategy basically disappear. The broader public narrative about the GOP & race comes from a bunch
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Of things: Goldwater’s vote on the CRA, welcoming Thurmond into the GOP, Nixon’s courting of the South, people like Trent Lott switching parties, etc
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No legitimate historiography does this.
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