It took you over an hour for that?!?

I refer you to Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy:

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''You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' -- that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

''And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me -- because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger.'''


Though, admittedly, I find his "removal by abstraction" idea laughable. You can read a great opinion piece on the matter here: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6DF1E30F935A35753C1A9639C8B63

Or, pick up Lamis' book here: http://www.amazon.com/Two-Party-South-Alexander-P-Lamis/dp/0195065794/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Both are great reads.

Oh, and in case you need to know about Lee "Willie Horton" Atwater: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

As for me, I was more than happy to be associated with him through his nephew. Despite his rather sleazy campaign style, he was actually a pretty nice guy.