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During the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon narrowly beat Hubert Humphrey, the Democrat and George Wallace, of the American Independent Party, who was regarded as a right wing extremist at the time, to gain his second term. The moderate Nelson Rockefeller failed to gain the nomination for the GOP over Nixon,. This thread begs the question what would have happened had Rockefeller won the GOP nomination. And How the history of the GOP would have changed without the use of the "Southern Strategy" Nixon employed.
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