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<blockquote data-quote="Tyrone Slothrop" data-source="post: 4884980" data-attributes="member: 4701"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/seven-things-reagan-wont-mentioned-tonight-gops-debate/[/URL]</p><p></p><p></p><p>State's Rights! </p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>1. Reagan launched his 1980 general election campaign with a speech lauding “states’ rights” outside Philadelphia, Mississippi — the site of the notorious “Mississippi Burning” murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.</strong></p><p><a href="https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/09/GettyImages-53097933.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90" target="_blank"><img src="https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/09/GettyImages-53097933.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&w=300&h=239" alt="PHILADELPHIA, MS - 1964: In this picture relaesed by the FBI and the State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office, the bodies of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner lie in an earthen dam June, 1964 just southwest of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The photograph was presented into evidence during the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who is charged with the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers June 17, 2005, in Philadelphia, Mississippi. (Photo by FBI/State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office via Getty Images)'s Office, the bodies of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner lie in an earthen dam June, 1964 just southwest of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The photograph was presented into evidence during the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who is charged with the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers June 17, 2005, in Philadelphia, Mississippi. (Photo by FBI/State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office via Getty Images)" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>The bodies of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner lie in an earthen dam June, 1964 just southwest of Philadelphia, Mississippi.</p><p>James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/freedomsummer-murder/" target="_blank">abducted and killed</a>in Mississippi by the local Ku Klux Klan in June 1964 — a case that garnered enormous national attention because, as Schwerner’s widow said, he and Goodman were white.</p><p></p><p>On August 3, 1980, Reagan traveled to the Neshoba County Fair, which a prominent state Republican <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=73BMCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT49&dq=%22george%20wallace%20inclined%20voters%22&pg=PT49#v=onepage&q=%22george%20wallace%20inclined%20voters%22&friend=false" target="_blank">had recommended</a> as the place to find “George Wallace-inclined voters.” There — within walking distance of the earthen dam where the murderers of the three civil rights workers had surreptitiously buried them just 16 years before — Reagan delivered a speech <a href="http://neshobademocrat.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=297&ArticleID=15600&TM=60417.67" target="_blank">including these lines</a>:</p><p></p><p>As columnist William Raspberry <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39345-2004Jun13.html" target="_blank">wrote</a> upon Reagan’s death, his endorsement of “states’ rights” — the same phrase white Southerners had used for decades to justify Jim Crow segregation — was “bitter symbolism for black Americans” and “an important bouquet in [GOP] courtship” of Dixiecrats.</p><p>The “states’ rights” reference was just one of many racist dog-whistles Reagan employed throughout his political career. During his unsuccessful 1976 run for the Republican presidential nomination, Reagan <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bh2cP5rfdBgC&lpg=PA64&dq=reagan%20%22strapping%20young%20buck%22%20%22welfare%20queen%22&pg=PA64#v=snippet&q=%22welfare%20queen%22&friend=false" target="_blank">decried</a> “welfare queens” <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bh2cP5rfdBgC&lpg=PA64&dq=reagan%20%22strapping%20young%20buck%22%20%22welfare%20queen%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=%22strapping%20young%20buck%22%20&friend=false" target="_blank">and</a> a “strapping young buck” who bought T-bone steaks with food stamps. In his 1984 reelection campaign he even returned to Philadelphia and <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PqCO2I85gRgC&lpg=PA136&ots=Ifbw4eqVZu&dq=%E2%80%9Cthe%20South%20shall%20rise%20again.%E2%80%9D%20reagan%20philadelphia&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9Cthe%20South%20shall%20rise%20again.%E2%80%9D%20&friend=false" target="_blank">declared</a> that “the South shall rise again.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tyrone Slothrop, post: 4884980, member: 4701"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/seven-things-reagan-wont-mentioned-tonight-gops-debate/[/URL] State's Rights! [B]1. Reagan launched his 1980 general election campaign with a speech lauding “states’ rights” outside Philadelphia, Mississippi — the site of the notorious “Mississippi Burning” murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.[/B] [URL='https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/09/GettyImages-53097933.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90'][IMG alt="PHILADELPHIA, MS - 1964: In this picture relaesed by the FBI and the State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office, the bodies of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner lie in an earthen dam June, 1964 just southwest of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The photograph was presented into evidence during the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who is charged with the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers June 17, 2005, in Philadelphia, Mississippi. (Photo by FBI/State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office via Getty Images)'s Office, the bodies of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner lie in an earthen dam June, 1964 just southwest of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The photograph was presented into evidence during the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who is charged with the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers June 17, 2005, in Philadelphia, Mississippi. (Photo by FBI/State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office via Getty Images)"]https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/09/GettyImages-53097933.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&w=300&h=239[/IMG][/URL] The bodies of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner lie in an earthen dam June, 1964 just southwest of Philadelphia, Mississippi. James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were [URL='http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/freedomsummer-murder/']abducted and killed[/URL]in Mississippi by the local Ku Klux Klan in June 1964 — a case that garnered enormous national attention because, as Schwerner’s widow said, he and Goodman were white. On August 3, 1980, Reagan traveled to the Neshoba County Fair, which a prominent state Republican [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=73BMCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT49&dq=%22george%20wallace%20inclined%20voters%22&pg=PT49#v=onepage&q=%22george%20wallace%20inclined%20voters%22&friend=false']had recommended[/URL] as the place to find “George Wallace-inclined voters.” There — within walking distance of the earthen dam where the murderers of the three civil rights workers had surreptitiously buried them just 16 years before — Reagan delivered a speech [URL='http://neshobademocrat.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=297&ArticleID=15600&TM=60417.67']including these lines[/URL]: As columnist William Raspberry [URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39345-2004Jun13.html']wrote[/URL] upon Reagan’s death, his endorsement of “states’ rights” — the same phrase white Southerners had used for decades to justify Jim Crow segregation — was “bitter symbolism for black Americans” and “an important bouquet in [GOP] courtship” of Dixiecrats. The “states’ rights” reference was just one of many racist dog-whistles Reagan employed throughout his political career. During his unsuccessful 1976 run for the Republican presidential nomination, Reagan [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=bh2cP5rfdBgC&lpg=PA64&dq=reagan%20%22strapping%20young%20buck%22%20%22welfare%20queen%22&pg=PA64#v=snippet&q=%22welfare%20queen%22&friend=false']decried[/URL] “welfare queens” [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=bh2cP5rfdBgC&lpg=PA64&dq=reagan%20%22strapping%20young%20buck%22%20%22welfare%20queen%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=%22strapping%20young%20buck%22%20&friend=false']and[/URL] a “strapping young buck” who bought T-bone steaks with food stamps. In his 1984 reelection campaign he even returned to Philadelphia and [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=PqCO2I85gRgC&lpg=PA136&ots=Ifbw4eqVZu&dq=%E2%80%9Cthe%20South%20shall%20rise%20again.%E2%80%9D%20reagan%20philadelphia&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9Cthe%20South%20shall%20rise%20again.%E2%80%9D%20&friend=false']declared[/URL] that “the South shall rise again.” [/QUOTE]
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