What is Reddit's opinion of The Rise of Southern Republicans?

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>Read Thomas Sowell if you are still struggling.

Like, his entire collected works? Thanks Professor. I'm familiar with the individual.

Since you seem to be ignorant about American history, I'll give you another suggestion.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Southern-Republicans-Earl-Black/dp/0674012488

You will be surprised to learn that throughout the 1900s Republicans fought against civil rights. This is a historical fact. I'm actually genuinely excited to share this learning experience. A lot of people are uneducated or ignorant about history and I feel like you and I can have a connection.

I'm good friends with the head of the history department at my local University. I can set up a phone conversation if you'd like that opportunity. I'm certain he would love to educate you about some basic American history.

So only two of those links deal with your "southern strategy" conspiracy:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w21703.pdf

>Ebonya Washington

>Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003 B.A., Public Policy, Brown University, 1995 (Honors)

>Ilyana Kuziemko

>A.B., Economics, Harvard, B.A., Mathematics, Oxford; PhD., Economics, Harvard.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Southern-Republicans-Earl-Black/dp/0674012488

>is a professor of Political Science at Rice University who has specialized in studies of the politics of the Southern United States.

>earned a B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. He has studied the relationship between politics and race or ethnicity in the South.

 

But only one of those two (the one by authors Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington) is almost a scholarly work because it's just a working paper. Unfortunately, a working paper is only preliminary theories that are shared to get some feedback from other academics before submitting to a peer-reviewed conference or academic journal. Sorry, working papers are not acceptable until they are published.

On a second note, neither of the two sources that are even on topic with our disagreement ever use the term "southern strategy" and they both define shifts in voting patterns as relevant until the late 1980's to the mid-1990's. So thus far, I'm still correct.