In the Republican Southern
Strategy, terms, phrases, and actions that evoke racism to racists, while being plausibly deniable to the press and the wider public. Much of this code is inherited from the pro-slavery
code of the antebellum South.
The name is a reference to high-pitched dog whistles that people cannot hear, but dogs can.
Code became an essential part of the Republican Southern
Strategy after overt racism became unacceptable.
Barry Goldwater's Libertarianism was Dog Whistle
Code for segregation at the 1964 Republican
's first Presidential campaign appearance was itself Dog Whistle
Code, taking place in Philadelphia
, the scene of the murder of three civil rights workers.States' Rights
Originally, Dog Whistle
Code for the right to keep slaves, then the right to maintain Jim Crow
segregation laws, now the right to oppress any disfavored minorities, women, immigrants, GLBT
s and the rest of the riffraff
Deficits don't matter (Ronald Reagan
Because they hurt Blacks worse than Whites (Lee Atwater, explaining the Southern
Strategy and Dog Whistle