Thank you. I will look for that book at my local library.

I do understand it’s a much broader issue. However, while I made every attempt to be factually correct, I tried to focus the topic as well as limit the length of my essay/commentary.

My primary points were to show that the targeted strategy deliberately codified in “Nixon’s Southern Strategy” is still being used — in a modified form — to manipulate a base who is convinced of the correctness, against all empirical evidence, of its social regressivism. That’s why I stated my definition as being “in broad terms” and intimated the shift began in the 1950s, but harkened back to the Civil War-era. The goal of my essay is to highlight that stratagem and show how it is still to the GOP’s advantage to hold that base to its nineteenth century regressivism which keeps them voting against the best interests of their own demographic – and, that the GOP does this by framing it through a religious lens to give that regressivism the veneer of a moral imperative.