It's not me saying it's bullshit.
So on the one hand we have Gulo citing "Nixon's political strategist" (presumably Kevin Phillips, who worked on Nixon's campaign - his wikipedia page says nothing about him being a political strategist for Nixon) expressing an opinion which says nothing at all about any strategy pursued by Nixon or the Republicans. That's some pretty weak evidence to jump to the conclusion that Republicans actively campaign and made overtures to racist white voters in the south - so weak in fact that some might say it sounds like bull shit.
But if, despite your utter lack of evidence (other than wikipedia and time) the burden of proof is still on my side, I have more. In the preface to his book, Kevin Phillips himself says that Nixon didn't read the book until after the election. He also says the book that is an analysis of voting patterns in America and IS NOT a description of anything Nixon or the Republicans did.
If those facts still aren't enough to debunk your baseless claim that you've known for a long time, here are some more facts (inconvenient facts for you). Like the fact that southern white vote didn't migrate to the Republican party until the 80s and through the 90s, well after the civil rights act, when the south became less racist. Congressional representation in the south didn't switch to Republican until the mid 90s. It's a fact that as racism in the south declines, dramatically, the southern identification with the Republican party increases.
Additionally, the black vote switched overwhelmingly to the Democrats in the 30s because of the economic benefits of the new deal well before the civil rights movement, the Democrat party was still the openly racist party of segregation and the kkk.
so we have two "big switches" but clearly neither of them has anything to do with this mythical "southern strategy" for which there is no evidence (other than a wikipedia article).
