Roberts grew up attending private and parochial schools then on to Harvard. HIs background is solidly middle- and upper-middle class. And lily white.
Roberts started his career working in the voting rights office of the DOJ Civil Rights division under Reagan then Bush I.
Bush II put him on the DC Court of Appeals and later on SCOTUS.
His work in DOJ was marked by opposition to the VRA and now he has achieved his lifelong goal.
Let's not mince any words and let's not put any lipstick on this pig. The Republican Party led by Nixon's Southern Strategy and later by Reagan's "states' rights" speech in Neshoba County, Mississippi, simply converted white supremacist Southern Democrats to white supremacist Southern Republicans. There is a reason the South is now as solidly Republican as it was previously solidly Democratic.
This was true then, it's true now.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
This from Bill Moyers, from LBJ after he signed the VRA.:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/22/we-may-have-lost-the-south-lbj-democrats-civil-rights-act-1964-bill-moyers
“I said, ‘Quite a day, Mr President.’ As he reached a sheaf of the wire copy he tilted his head slightly back and held the copy up close to him so that he could read it, and said: ‘Well, I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime – and mine.’
I"m a native Mississippian who escaped in 1962 at age 18 and never looked back. My MIssissippi, Alabama, and Louisian cousins include a few lonely Democrats. The rest send their children and grandchildren to lily-white "segregation academies," vote Republican, and swear that Democrats are "communists and socialists." Talk with them for five minutes is like listening to the conversations of the white Southerners I grew up around in the 1950's.
I guarantee every state of the old Confederacy will begin dismantling their majority-minority voting districts to put the n#####s back in their place and keep them there.
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