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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3360015" data-attributes="member: 56035">from the same article:On President Reagan's war on drugs"He declared the drug war primarily for reasons of politics — racial politics. Numerous historians and political scientists have documented that the war on drugs was part of a grand Republican Party strategy known as the "Southern strategy" of using racially coded 'get-tough' appeals on issues of crime and welfare to appeal to poor and working-class whites, particularly in the South, who were resentful of, anxious about and threatened by many of the gains of African-Americans in the civil rights movement."</blockquote>