"Southern strategy" . "Southern Strategy" . "generally elected Republican national candidates" . "the Southern strategy" . . "the Republican Party's appeal to southern white conservatives" . "southern strategy" . . . "South's shift from being monolithically Democratic to being heavily Republican" . . "shift towards the South" . "appealed to white Southern Democrats" . "racial fears" . "Southern strategy" . "becoming more reliably Republican" . "Republican realignment" . "largely shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party" . . . "Southern states" .