Word: phillipses
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The author is Kevin P. Phillips, 28, a graduate of Harvard Law School ('64) who was a voting-trend analyst for Nixon Campaign Manager John Mitchell. Since the election, he has followed Mitchell to the Justice Department and is now an assistant to the Attorney General.
Social Engineering. More than anything else, Phillips' book is a master plan of how the G.O.P. can corral voters troubled by what he calls "the Negro problem." The Democrats, says Phillips, have shifted from the economic populist stand of the New Deal to "social engineering." As a result, writes...
Accordingly, Phillips would work toward a Republican majority* by embracing disgruntled white former Democrats. He sees voting strength in the suburbanites who flee the cities when the blacks move in. He would plow the Midwestern blue-collar enclaves, where white lower-middle-class voters fear economic competition from ambitious blacks...
In his survey of G.O.P. hopes, Phillips dismisses some areas as places where "Democratic trends correlate with stability and decay (New England, New York City, Michigan, West Virginia and San Francisco-Berkeley)." Certain heavily urbanized states, according to Phillips, "are no longer necessary for national Republican victory." Urban populations in...
Phillips, among others, sees the Deep South and the border states as a future stronghold of the G.O.P. "Now that the national Democratic Party is becoming the Negro party throughout most of the South," says Phillips, "the alienation of white Wallace voters is likely to persist." He reasons that the...