When Richard Nixon employed his "Southern strategy," he Question 17 options: used the FBI to help collect secrets and blackmail southern Democratic leaders. ignored the southern states in favor of voters in the Midwest and Northeast. appealed to disaffected white voters in the South. appealed to black southerners who had recently mobilized for civil rights.

appealed to disaffected white voters in the South.

Explanation:

The "Southern Strategy" which was widely associated with the former United States President, Richard Nixon, was a response to the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s, which has caused more racial tension in the southern part of the U.S.

Souther Strategy was generally considered as a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.

Hence, When Richard Nixon employed his "Southern strategy," he appealed to disaffected white voters in the South.

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