Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Southern strategy - Strategy by Republican party candidates of gaining political support in the southern US by consciously appealing to white Democrats' racial resentments in order to gain votes. In the 80s, it was anti drug rhetoric Law and order rhetoric - The demand for a stricter criminal justice system (ie longer terms of imprisonment, mandatory sentencing, 3 strikes laws, capital punishment) Used by Nixon and Wallace Welfare queen - Women accused of collecting excessive welfare payme...