Meme the 47%, the Wingnut Way 0
Chauncey Devega decodes the code. It’s the odious Southern strategy once more all over again.
Romney’s narrative of “makers” and “takers” is rooted in the Republican Party’s ability to put a black and brown face on poverty in America by the use of what has come to be described as “the Southern Strategy.” Since at least Richard Nixon, conservatives realized that by linking anti-poverty programs to people of color that white support for these policies can be undercut.
