5 signs Scott Walker is employing GOP’s racist “Southern Strategy”

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The candidate's new push for a "right-to-work" law is just his latest appeal to white voters' racial resentment

ROGER BYBEE, ALTERNET

Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s drive for an anti-labor “right to work” law covering private-sector workers is deeply rooted in the racism of the Deep South’s former slaveholding states.

They are yet more evidence that he is following a template known as the Republican Party’s “Southern strategy,” which plays to white voters’ racial resentment, even though his budding presidential campaign is based in snow-encrusted Wisconsin.

This emerging strategy is reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s original “Southern strategy” of 1968 and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign kickoff event. Reagan started his campaign by championing state’s rights in Neshoba County in Mississippi, a site whose only national symbolic significance was serving as the site of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.

Many progressive commentators have asserted that major demographic shifts among Latinos and the young have utterly closed off the road to the White House for any GOP candidate. But Thomas B. Edsall cautioned that a different scenario could emerge.

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http://www.salon.com/2015/03/04/5_signs_scott_walker_is_employing_gops_racist_southern_strategy_partner/

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1. His base here in Wisconsin loves the racism. Also jokes about the disabled and "crazy people."

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2. RW Talk radio mentality.

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3. Except that Wisconsin is a very white state. 88.1% white as of the last Census.

Its amusing to me that Badger red necks are so worried about a problem that, by looking out their window to see, doesn't exist.

Wisconsin, I love the land, but the people are really whacked out.

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4. Yeah, but the 88% figure the other 12% are all drug addicts in Milwaukee, and all on welfare.

Racism is rampant here.