Kinda got to watch this first to get the mood right!
Some of the reason for the current animosity between left and right is simple propaganda -- false, but incendiary, as the aged calumny of "Nixon's Southern Strategy" as racist, and a continuation of this theme through Reagan.
In his new book, MSNBC political correspondent Steve Kornacki attempts to put the current state of America’s uncivil politics in historical context. He does so, naturally, by blaming Republicans. To get a sense of how objective he is in his outlook -- and rigorous in his research -- the reader only need know that Kornacki repeats the same untruth about Reagan that Hillary Clinton put in in her tedious 512-page alibi published last year. Clinton and Kornacki both wrote that Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss.
Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was the realization that since Republicans had finally beaten back Jim Crow in the South (R Senate 27 yes, 6 no Vs D 46 yes, 21 no, with similar in the House), the South would likely vote with the party that most aligned with their values outside of Jim Crow -- in 100 years, they had somewhat fogiven Republicans for winning the Civil War, or as they refer to it still sometimes, "The War of Northern Agression".
The article covers well how easily disproved the Reagan racist start to his campaign charge is, as well as covering how uneccessary it is to read a tribal book on tribalism that in keeping with it's own motif says "the other tribe did it!".
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