I don't know Dave6 and I'm not his "compatriot"

Lee Atwater, who got RR elected and largely invented the "Southern Strategy" had RR open his campaign In Philadelphia Miss, and that was a "dog whistle" to call the Southern racists.  "States rights" meant that Jim Crow was a local decision.  RR couldn't have won without the Southern Strategy.

Lee Atwater explains the Southern Strategy and "dog whistles" in his famous and profane interview:  https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

I dare you to read it!  Not pretty at all, is it. But now, with Trump, "political correctness" is gone, and Trump loyalists feel free to use racial, religious, sexual and cultural epithets, and are they ever liberated!

By the way, the forum filters won't pass even the first sentence of Atwater's interview, even with asterisks replacing some words.