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Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy
The Nation
A short audio clip of a 1981 interview in which Republican strategist Lee Atwater explains to a political scientist how the party could win racist voters without using overtly racist language. It was published by The Nation with analysis by Rick Perlstein.
HN commenters cite it as a primary source for the Southern Strategy and coded racial language, in Atwater's own words.
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