What Was the "Southern Strategy

question 29

Multiple Choice

What was the "southern strategy"?

• A) an attempt by Franklin Roosevelt to add the South to his New Deal Coalition
• B) an effort by the Republican Party starting in the 1960s to woo the white South away from the Democratic Party
• C) an attempt by Democrats in the 1970s to enhance their standing in the South by appealing to black voters
• D) the national government's attempt to ensure black citizens' right to vote by allowing federal agents to monitor southern elections
• E) an effort by the Republican Party in the late nineteenth century to weaken the Democratic Party's influence in the North by associating Democrats with the secessionist South

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