The Missionary Position

Pittsburgh City Paper: "It all began with Nixon's infamous 'Southern Strategy.' In the '60s, the Republican Party, realizing there was an untapped voting bloc in America, actively began courting ... ah, let's call them 'less-than-tolerant Southerners.' Every successful national Republican candidate since has used code words like 'states' rights' and 'nonactivist judges' and, without exception, has kicked off his campaign in a deeply Southern state to get those yahoos to the polls."