Kevin Phillips obituary

American political analyst behind Richard Nixon's electoral southern strategy' who later became an author and columnist

The whole secret of politics is knowing who hates who," Kevin Phillips told the journalist Garry Wills during the 1968 US presidential campaign.

Phillips, who has died aged 82, was the political analyst behind Richard Nixon's southern strategy", aimed at exploiting racial tensions to draw to the Republican side the more conservative voters in the south, where the Democrats had dominated since the American civil war primarily because Abraham Lincoln had been a Republican.

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