Kevin Phillips’s 1969 book “The Emerging Republican Majority” was viewed by some in the GOP as the blueprint to winning over Southern voters.
Author Kevin P. Phillips at his home office in Bethesda, Md. He was the author of 15 books. Kevin P. Phillips, a political analyst and prolific author whose 1969 book “The Emerging Republican Majority” was read as an electoral blueprint for the GOP’s “Southern Strategy” to build a coalition of Whites who voted largely on social and racial issues, died Oct. 9 at a hospice center near his home in Naples, Fla. He was 82.The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, Alec Phillips. Mr.
“The more Negros who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans,” Mr. PhillipsMr. Phillips maintained that he was just describing human behavior. “The whole secret of politics,” he opined to author Garry Wills Still, establishment conservatives such as William F. Buckley Jr. shunned him. He, in turn, began to shun them.
“When you take into account how often he’s been right in the past,” the review continues, his new volume “in his continuing commentary on the American condition becomes positively alarming.”
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