Complicit Civility and the Politics of Exclusion: Nixon’s Southern Strategy and Rockefeller’s Response
This essay analyzes the 1964 and 1968 Republican campaigns as a case study in the rhetoric of complicit civility, a strategy of elite cooperation in which one rhetor wields a subtle rhetoric of exclusion while other rhetors, who recognize the undemocratic aspects of that rhetoric but also its potential electoral appeal, challenge the rhetor but not the rhetoric, instead shifting the political argument to other grounds. This combination endorses antidemocratic rhetoric while normalizing it as a routine part of democratic political processes. As a strategy practiced by elites, complicit civility entrenches extant hierarchies and authorizes exclusion.
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Western Journal of Communication on 2022-03-15, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10570314.2022.2032819.
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Work Title | Complicit Civility and the Politics of Exclusion: Nixon’s Southern Strategy and Rockefeller’s Response |
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Publication Date | March 2, 2022 |
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Deposited | June 22, 2023 |
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