Sam Ervin, North Carolina Democrat and US senator, opposed Brown v. Board of Education and every step in the assault on Jim Crow, championed in the senate by Republican Vice President, Richard Nixon.
Later, he led the effort in the senate to destroy President Nixon.
The National Review, William F. Buckley, and the conservative movement, including their hero Barry Goldwater, were firmly on the side of Democrat Ervin, and opposed to Republicans Eisenhower and Nixon.
The "southern strategy" was only a very natural symptom of the conservative takeover of the GOP.
Not really strategy, at all.
Instinct.
As natural as breathing.
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