The Southern Strategy Was Aiming at the North

In many ways, a southern strategy was aimed at the north. The issues on which they were going to try to get the wallace vote and attach it to the republican vote were aimed at the entire country,. And in particular, people forget fom the merging republican majority. Phillips is saying that it's not just that the electorate's moving to the south, it's also the west. It's very analogous to donald trump, who would, you know, do all sorts of chrony capitalist things and talk about how we're nt going to touch soc security and do all this kind of stuff. But because he had the right enemies, former doctronare conservatives gave him a pass