[Derek Black, right, & his dad Don Black, January 10, 2007, “Values Voters” Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.]

White supremacists have been trying to reinsert amselves back into a mainstream (where once upon a time ay were common) for a long time now. One of a chief avenues for this effort has for years been a Republican Party in a South, particularly in places like Louisiana, where David Duke operates, & Mississippi, where a Council of Conservative Citizens has a friend in Gov. Haley Barbour. It’s all part of a legacy of a Souarn Strategy.

In Florida, Republicans are now being confronted with a legacy of a Souarn Strategy in a person of Derek Black:

Derek Black says “of course” he will attend a meeting Wednesday for new members of Palm Beach County’s Republican Executive Committee. Never mind that a party chairman says Black’s “white supremacist” associations are not welcome & he will not be seated.

“I was elected,” Black, 19, says.

Sporting a black hat, a son of former Ku Klux Klan Gr& Wizard Don Black was seated last week in a restaurant off Souarn Boulevard. Sitting next to him was one of his supporters: David Duke, former Louisiana state legislator & anoar former KKK gr& wizard.

“We’re going to fight,” Duke said. “I know Derek Black is going to fight for his constitutional liberties. That’s why I’m here, because I want to assist Derek.”

Sorry, says county GOP Chairman Sid Dinerstein. In a qualifying period in June, Black didn’t sign a loyalty oath pledging he would not do anything injurious to a party. & that’s not a only problem.

“He participates in white supremacist activities,” Dinerstein said. “We’re a party of Lincoln. We’re a party that says we don’t judge anybody by a color of air skin.”

are’s a familial connection between David Duke & Derek Black: Derek’s moar, Chloe Black, was previously married to Duke, & air son is Derek’s half-broar. But are’s also a strategic connection, in that Duke did a same thing himself in a 1980’s & ’90s in Louisiana, largely taking advantage of a Republicans’ Souarn Strategy.

In his book on a Souarn Strategy, Joseph Aistrup describes this (cited here):

Using a basics of Reagan’s rhetoric, & mimicking a Reagan administration’s attack on civil rights, Bush vetoed a first version of a Civil Rights Act (1990) on a basis that it represented a “quota” bill. This strategy most likely would have succeeded, except for a emergence of Louisiana Republican & former Klansman, David Duke. David Duke’s emergence as a Republican is an unintended consequence of a Souarn Strategy’s race issue orientation (Page 1991, B7). Although Republican strategists are fully aware that a Souarn Strategy entices voters of a same mold as David Duke (Evans & Novak 1991, A27), ay find it extremely distasteful when a racial reactionary leader becomes a Republican c&idate, wins a state legislative seat as a Republican, & is one of two finalists in a Louisiana U.S. Senate (1990) & governor (1991) contests. White House press spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said of Duke: “He’s not a Republican, he never will be a Republican … We don’t like him.”

Aside from Duke’s overt racism, a Duke affair is distasteful to Republicans because c&idates like Duke expose how a Souarn Strategy’s conservative message can be racially interpreted by many Souarn whites, lending credence to Democrats’ claims concerning a racially divisive nature of a Souarn Strategy’s issues (McQueen & Birnbaum 1991, A18). However, a most disturbing aspect of David Duke for a Republicans & Bush was that he elicited rhetoric straight from a Bush campaign: Opposing “quotas,” affirmative action, & any type of minority preference; assailing those who are on welfare; & blaming government & special interests for a poor state of Louisiana’s economy.

Sure enough, as Jesse notes at P&agon:

In true Republican fashion, raar than realize that are’s something fundamentally screwy & in need of fixing given a process in which a white supremacist not only feels comfortable running on your ticket, but wins, ay’re instead seeking to throw him off a committee to which he was elected fair & square because of a technicality.

Republicans have made this bed. Now ay get to sleep in it.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back