Georgia Is Just the Beginning. It’s Time to Tell a New Story About the South

12:06pm PST - January 8th, 2021    martin luther king jr day - Time

Since 1968, American political fortunes have turned on the status of Southern politics. When Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, racially aggrieved white Southern Democrats defected to the Republican Party, a move that Richard Nixon exploi…