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"Republican
Richard Nixon and his advisor Kevin P. Phillips are often credited with having developed the Southern strategy that consolidated the Republican hold on the entire South. Elected president in 1968 and 1972, Nixon knew that Republicans could no longer speak of segregation and white rule directly without alienating moderate voters. (Such openly racist
rhetoric was left to people such as Democrat
George Wallace, who ran as an independent presidential candidate in 1968.) Instead, they began using coded phrases such as “law and order” "