Friday, January 21, 2005
The Media and the Racism
In other words, the two biggest reasons why the GOP controls so much of everything nowadays.
Other people have already explained better than I can how the US media was bought off and/or cowed into submission by the Republicans. But not many people have really delved into how the GOP's "Southern Strategy" is also a "Suburb Strategy".
The Republicans only started serious media cowing/buyout efforts in the 1970s. They'd been working on the Southern Strategy a good decade earlier -- and as this link and this other link show, it was none other than George Herbert Walker Bush (aka Bush the Elder) who first road-tested it in 1964.
More on that will be forthcoming.
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