You need to rethink your knowledge of our history ...For starters, The birther movement had nothing to do with race and everything to do with forged birth certificates and hijacked SSN's combined with admissions to being a foreign student including his financial aid application and application for admission. Sorry to burst your bubble but every single segregationist in the Senate was a Democrat. Only one of them ever became a Republican: Strom Thurmond. The rest remained not only Democrats, but quite liberal Democrats. These “Southern oppressors” were liberal Democrats when they were racists and remained liberal Democrats after they finally stopped being racists (in public). If Republicans had a racist “Southern strategy,” it didn’t work on the racists. Nor did Nixon — or Reagan — ever win over segregationist voters. Republicans only began sweeping the South after the segregationists died. Do names like Al Gore Sr and Wayne Morse ring bells?