• blackbelt352@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I’d say Nixon, without the Southern Strategy, the republican party wouldn’t have been basically taken over by the subsumed Dixiecrats.

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      Andrew Johnson. He reversed the reparations that were starting to happen, and put the former slaveholders back in power in the south. By the time Grant got into power, the slaveholders were firmly entrenched again.

      All the problems of the modern day conservatives date back to not finishing the civil war, and Andrew Johnson is the reason why.