Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened the Voting Rights Act. From now on, Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote, and they don't need any more than that. Even 'Jake the Snake' only gets 20 percent. Īs he stated to the New York Times Magazine in 1970,Īll the talk about Republicans making inroads into the Negro vote is persiflage. The book was entitled The Emerging Republican Majority and argued that the southern states of the US would keep the Republicans winning Presidential Elections and more than offset the Northeast states, based on racial politics. Phillips worked for Richard Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968, and afterwards wrote a book on what has come to be known as the ' Southern strategy' of the Republican Party. The author of fourteen books, he lives in Goshen, Connecticut. Phillips also was partly responsible for the design of the Republican ' Southern Strategy' of the 1970s and 1980s. His predictions regarding shifting voting patterns in presidential elections proved accurate, though they did not extend 'down ballot' to Congress until the Republican revolution of 1994. Phillips was a strategist on voting patterns for Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, which was the basis for a book, The Emerging Republican Majority, which predicted a conservative political realignment in national politics, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential recent works in political science. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, and National Public Radio, and was a political analyst on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers.

Formerly a Republican Party strategist before becoming an independent, Phillips became disaffected with the party from the 1990s, and became a critic. Kevin Price Phillips (born November 30, 1940) is an American writer and commentator on politics, economics, and history. University of Edinburgh (M.A., Geography)

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