After Watergate, good ole' boy Jimmy Carter (D) did use the Southern strategy and beat Gerald Ford(R) and swept a whole new crop of southerners into DC. It was good ole' Dixie ho-down with yours truly, KKK member,  Sen. Robert Byrd playing his fiddle at a reception just after Carter  was inaugurated as  President of the New Confederacy.....http://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/28/archives/carter-and-byrd-vie-to-get-laughs-at-reception.html....Ronald Reagan ended that little historical/hysterical  backslide   with a landslide victory over Carter Country in 1980. Then in 1992 a self-described 'standard red-neck' Billy-boy Clinton from Arkansas came along to haunt the Whitehouse. Just another good ole' boy Democrat...Thankfully his southern bell wife got told by the voters, "Frankly, my dear, we  don't give a damn." and she ended up being  'gone with the wind'....The End   PS  The 'southern strategy', as you can see, is pure Democrat strategy and always has been.