Chris Matthews' Strategizing  Ken Blackwell  2/22/2012 12:01:00
AM - Ken Blackwell   Chris is struggling with the truth. He is
determined to jam his size 11 foot into the glass slipper of
liberal orthodoxy. And it just won’t fit.  The term “Southern
Strategy” was invented by liberals in 1968 to attack their
partisan opponents in the Republican Party, then led by Richard
Nixon. Many leaders in the South had indeed resisted de-
segregation in the 1960s, some going so far as to suggest
“massive resistance” to court-ordered equal accommodations for
black and white Southerners.  Every one of those segregationsts
was a Democrat. George Wallace, Bull Connor, Lester Maddox.
Democrats every one.  Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, were elected by appealing to a united
South.  No one called any of these Democratic presidents racists
because they appealed to Southern voters. No one calls them
racist now.  But somehow for liberals like Chris, appealing to
voters in the South becomes racist, becom