Question #38a5a
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Jun 22, 2017
He needed the support of Southern Whites and Midwesterners
Explanation:
In the course of the Sixties the Republican Party was torn between the Moderates of the East Coast( often wealthy such as future Vice President Nelson Rockefeller) and the more radical voters in the South(who had recently deserted from the Democratic vote due to their new stance on segregation) and the Midwest(the midwest was originally the land of homesteaders and Populists who were far from being pro-Big Business unlike the Moderates of the East Coast.)
Nixon wanted to shift the stance of his party more to the right. He did transform the ideological base of the party as much as Ronald Reagan, nevertheless he was somehow a precursor of the Conservative Revolution of the eighties .
