In the 1970s, there was much talk of President Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy,” which appealed to white fear of black rise, and drove whites from the Democratic Party to the Republican. But in the twenty-first century, a “Northern strategy” has unfolded, one in which conservatives of the North are following those of the South—in a movement of the rich and those identified with them, to lift off the burden of help for the underprivileged. Across the whole land, the idea is, handouts should stop. The richer around the nation will become free of the poorer. They will secede.
