Original sentence: According to Lassiter, political scientists and historians point out, that the timing does not fit the "Southern Strategy" model.Furthermore, realignment in the South "came primarily from the suburban ethos of New South metropolises such as Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, not to the exportation of the working-class racial politics of the Black Belt".Lassiter argues that Nixon's appeal was not to the Wallacites or segregationists, but rather to the rapidly emerging suburban middle class.Lassiter says the Southern Strategy was a "failure" for the GOP and that the Southern base of the Republican Party "always depended more on the middle-class corporate economy and on the top-down politics of racial backlash".Many had Northern antecedents, wanted rapid economic growth and saw the need to put backlash politics to rest.Nixon carried 49 states in 1972, so he operated a successful national rather than regional strategy.Some historians believe that racial issues took a back seat to a grassroots narrative known as the "suburban strategy".but the Republican Party remained quite weak at the local and state level across the entire South for decades
Edited sentence: A few historians believe that racial issues took a back seat to a grassroots narrative known as the "suburban strategy".According to Lassiter, realignment in the South "came primarily from the suburban ethos of New South metropolises such as Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, not to the exportation of the working-class racial politics of the Black Belt"