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 …
Well, historians when they talk within the profession, anyway. But the narrative on this platform & in progressive columns/blogs, for example, is terribly oversimplified.
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I think every network & publication needs several house historians
. The Republicans definitely move right on race in the late 60s & 70s. It’s not an abrupt switch flipping moment, nor is it universal. But they could’ve said, no Strom we don’t want you. Instead they embraced him -
And in 1970 Nixon and Dent reject a Southern moderate strategy like Linwood Hilton advocates & run people like Albert Watson instead.
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