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What was the Southern Strategy?

1. a policy designed to attack Southern black leaders and stick them with long prison sentences


2. A tactic used by Nixon and later Republicans to use fear of crime and promised law and order to win over Southern white voters


3. Raising taxes on the poor to help fight crime in poor urban centers

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In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans

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