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@richhopson6063 Nixon doesn't get enough credit. In the house, he was the youngest member of the Un-American Activities Commission. While running for the senate, he ran a major Red Scare campaign against his opponent. During that campaign, he also somehow convinced FDR voting, union leader, Democrat, Ronald Reagan, to drop his support for Nixon's opponent, and put him on the path to crazytown. In 1968, fed up with the Northerners of both parties passing Civil Rights bills, the racist Southern majority voted for a third party resegregationist, winning 5 states. Nixon then won that racist Southern majority over to the Republican party. Except for giving Southern boy Jimmy Carter one shot, they've largely remained Republican ever since. So, Nixon is the one who started collecting all the nuts into one basket, starting with the extreme anti-socialists and Southern racists. Reagan added the religious extremists to the basket.
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@flip.flap. Most of it is basic stuff. Nixon bio for his House and HUAC years, 64/68 Civil Rights votes (mainly divided by geography, not party, Southern Republicans also voted against, Northern Democrats mostly voted for), and maps of the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections. As for the California senate race, between "Tricky Dick" and "The Pink Lady", there's a good Slate article ... Actress, Opera Star, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas fought for liberty—and watched Richard Nixon end her political career. BY KARINA LONGWORTH APRIL 14, 2016
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@flip.flap. Nixon and Reagan Wiki bios, have basics. Helen Gahagan Douglas was Nixon's California senate opponent, who he nicknamed "The Pink Lady". She's the one who nicknamed him "Tricky Dick". She was awesome. A good Slate article ... "Actress, Opera Star, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas fought for liberty—and watched Richard Nixon end her political career. BY KARINA LONGWORTH APRIL 14, 2016" If you look up who voted for and against the 1964 and 1968 Civil Rights bills, you'll find it was divided mainly by geography, not party. The Southern Republicans were just as opposed, and voted against, as the Southern Democrats. It was the Northerners, of both parties, that passed the bills. If you look at the 1968 and 1972 election maps, you'll see 5 states were won by resegregationist, George Wallace, in 1968. Then they went Republican, in 1972.
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@GOPexorcism-we4mp I'd say Teddy wasn't too bad. He came around to workers, and introduced his Square Deal. Plus, when he saw the Republican party turning further right, he tried coming back to run for a third term, and ended up running against them with his Progressive party after they turned him down. Then they ran the economy into the Great Depression. But, after losing to FDR 4 times straight, they kinda reset a little, and Ike was the more moderate end of the party. But, they've been going hard right ever since.
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