Law and order : Nixon's rhetoric and the Southern strategy

Hopewell, Audrey

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Law and order : Nixon's rhetoric and the Southern strategy

dc.contributor.sponsor	Myers, Leroy
dc.contributor.sponsor	Griswold, Robert
dc.creator	Hopewell, Audrey
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-01T00:49:55Z
dc.date.accessioned	2021-04-14T15:26:31Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-01T00:49:55Z
dc.date.available	2021-04-14T15:26:31Z
dc.description	David W. Levy Prize finalist, Spring 2017
dc.description.abstract	Today's familiar Democratic and Republican party coalitions have not always existed; rather, they began to emerge in the 1960s as demographic and geographic groups shifted party alliances. This paper focuses on one factor in the party realignment: Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. Nixon's 1968 campaign was characterized by a balance between appeals to conservative, anti-integration Southern white voters and the risk of alienating Northern liberals. To implement this "Southern strategy," Nixon employed ostensibly race-neutral language that actually had coded racial meaning. This color-blind rhetoric was belied by the actions of the administration and Nixon's rhetorical shift to the right after taking office.
dc.description.undergraduate	undergraduate
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dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244.46/1282
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dc.subject	Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1968
dc.subject	Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
dc.subject	United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
dc.subject	David W. Levy Prize
dc.title	Law and order : Nixon's rhetoric and the Southern strategy
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dc.type	text
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