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  2. Among the significant actions taken by President Nixon to benefit minorities was increasing the budget for civil rights programs. From 1969 – 1972 the funds were increased from 75 million to more than 600 million. President Nixon initiated the Emergency School Act with 1,500,000 to help end school segregation and pay for promotion of interracial experiences among children where racial isolation existed. The Department of Defense initiated actions to overcome off-base discrimination against black military personnel. President Nixon issued an Executive Order calling on Federal agencies to apply Equal Opportunity (EO) policies to every aspect of personnel policies and practices. President Nixon allocated 12 million dollars for Sickle Cell research. This disease afflicts one out of every 500 black children. From 1969 to 1971, the government’s Federal purchases from black businesses increased to 142,000,000 from 13,000,000. In 1969 President Nixon issued an Executive order creating an Office of Minority Business Enterprise in the Department of Commerce. The Nixon Administration requested legislation to extend the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) authority to the state and local level. Most importantly, President Nixon mandated that federal contractors must comply with equal employment opportunity laws. Full article: http://nixonfoundation.org/2013/02/r...-civil-rights/ So what did Nixon do to attract white Southern racist democrats? What was his strategy? Desegregation? Nobody has yet told me what he did to alienate blacks or to appeal to Southern racists. Nobody has described how the plan was implemented or what policies were enacted by Nixon to achieve the alleged ends. Nobody has pointed to any statements made by Nixon in any speech or writings nor any directives or communications, directing to his staff to engage in actions to implement the "Southern Strategy". The very name "Southern Strategy" is not present in any of Nixon's documents that I have seen. The parties never switched.
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