Thomas Edsalls Chain Reaction

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Over the past two decades there has been a lot of debate about the legacy of Ronald Regan , especially in regard to his exploitation of backlash of the whites opposed to civil rights campaigns . This controversy however ignores the undoubtedly larger point which is the fundamental role played by this backlash in the emergence of the modern world conservative movements . The central role played by race particularly the shift of loyalty of southern whites from overwhelmingly supporting Democrats to Republicans has been significantly

observed from voting patterns . It is obvious that most white people turned away from overwhelmingly supporting Democrats over issues of national security God and guns . In the 1992 presidential elections as pointed out by research studies , over 40 percent of non-white southern population voted for democrats . In the presidential election of 2004 , this statistics remained virtually unchanged . Over four decades have passed since the enactment of voting rights act described later as humiliating to the southern states in the 1980s by Ronald Reagan . However , the voting patterns as exhibited by the southern white population remain distinctive . The Democratic Party won overwhelming majority in House elections of 2006 yet the voting pattern of the southern whites predominantly voted for the Republican Party by a two to one ratio . This shift of voting pattern by the southern whites has been admittedly acknowledged by the leaders of G .O .P as a political strategy . Many members of the republic party have give up on wowing...