THE GOP, COURTING THE RACIST VOTE SINCE 1970 WITH THE "SOUTHERN STRATEGY":; "The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."​ Kevin Philips, Nixon political strategist 1970