shmoop/reagan-era/race.html Reagans New Southern Strategy was the beginning of the Tea Party. Lee Atwater, the most influential Republican political operative of the 1980s and Reagans campaign manager in 1980, called Reagans subtle approach to white backlash voters the New Southern Strategy. Atwater acknowledged in 1981 that the strategy had been designed to appeal to the racist side of the [George] Wallace voter without antagonizing other Americans who might be offended by ugly Wallace-style racism. As Atwater explained, You start out in 1954 by saying, N-----, n-----, n-----. By 1968 you cant say n-----—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states rights, and all these things that youre talking about are totally economic things and a by-product of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it... because obviously sitting around saying, We want to cut this, is much more abstract than even the busing thing and a hell of a lot more abstract than N-----, n-----.
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