Southern strategy

How the Southern Strategy of the late 20th century gave rise to the modern GOP.

Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.

For decades, the Republican Party has used what's known as "the Southern Strategy" to win white support in the region.

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation.

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.

It took much longer — and went much further — than we think.

The 42 minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.

The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

How the region switched from being the stronghold of one party to the base of its adversary.

Georgia GOP candidate Brian Kemp is using a tried-and-tested formula designed to erode and corrode American democracy.

The road to the violence around statues is paved with hate, lies, and political gamesmanship.

Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.

The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.

Richardson’s work is as much about the contradictions of our shared past as it is an urgent call to action around the current authoritarian crisis.

What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.

Unlike the Southern whites who moved en masse during the 20th century, these early migrants often had direct, personal ties to the institution of slavery.

Revisiting "When Affirmative Action Was White," nearly two decades on.