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You start out in 1954 by saying, *N*****, n*****, n*****.* By 1968 you can*t say *n*******that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states* rights, and all that stuff, and you*re getting so abstract. Now, you*re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you*re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.* *We want to cut this,* is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than *N*****, n*****.*
-Lee Atwater, campaign consultant to Ronald Reagan