?From Day One, Nixon and I talked about creating a new majority,? what we talked about, basically, was shearing off huge segments of F.D.R.'s New Deal coalition, which L.B.J. had held together: Northern Catholic ethnics and Southern Protestant conservatives—what we called the Daley-Rizzo Democrats in the North and, frankly, the Wallace Democrats in the South.? Pat Buchanan (The Fall of Conservatism Have the Republicans run out of ideas? by George Packer May 26, 2008)
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