The Southern Strategy and Lee Atwater

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

Is this like the VP stating publicly that the policies of their opponents will re-instate slavery in the South?

You beat me to it.

In recent years, the term "Southern strategy" has been used in a more general sense, referring to the way in which political parties use cultural themes in election campaigns — primarily but not exclusively in the American South.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

"He goin' put y'all back in chains. He said he go'n' do nothin' 'bout stoppin' the practice of outsourcing."

Odd. I've not heard PennDelawareans speak in such a manner before this. When he finally got to outsourcing he forgot all about dropping the "g."