The campaign strategy employed by Nixon after the passage of the Civil Rights Act worked as well for the GOP - and all those Dixiecrats who converted - as when it was first used in the effort to beat back Reconstruction. Newt Gingrich played the dog whistle to a 't' in S. Carolina, and we'll be hearing it again when the 2012 primaries return to the former slave states. Clip from "Roots The Next Generation."
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