# Southern Strategy denialism

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-strategy-denialism/681651>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 18, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-strategy-denialism/681651 "2014-02-18T20:45:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-strategy-denialism/681651/181 "2014-02-22T22:29:00Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Not to attribute that meaning to Reagan is to accuse him of cluelessness.

Well, there is an accusation that might find support.

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**Author:** ![quietthomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3d9bf3/32.png) [@quietthomas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quietthomas)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-strategy-denialism/681651/182 "2015-12-09T07:14:41Z")

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Would William F. Buckley’s views on Segregation in the South have any relevance in all this? It sounds like it was just a conservative issue of the day and that they all went about it in different ways with different levels of explicit and implicit decision making going on.

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