Looking for good overviews of “southern strategy” and “movement conservatism” after today’s @HC_Richardson Facebook Live session.
1st: “The GOP’s partisan conversion of Southern white evangelicals is so complete that no longer must a Republican…” 🧵
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
2nd: Wilson segregated the civil service.
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/how-w…
3rd: Truman desegregated the military and the civil service. Former Confederate states were POed and ran Gov Strom Thurmond as 3rd party candidate in “1948.
newrepublic.com/article/158320…
3rd: “Eastern Republicans, whose history was defined by opposition to slavery, Western Republicans had long held racial views toward Asians and Native Americans similar to those of Southern Democrats toward African Americans.” The Brown decision united south and west.
4th: @HC_Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War
amazon.com/How-South-Won-…
5th: Worth noting that Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) was one of only six Republican senators who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 27 voted in favor.
The six included John Tower (R-TX).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rig…
6th: interview with Dr. Angie Maxwell, co-author with Todd Shields, of … @facingsouth facingsouth.org/2021/01/politi…
7th: The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
amazon.com/Long-Southern-…
8th: @HC_Richardson on the @billmoyers site, 2017, explaining “Movement Conservatism” as she did in today’s FB Live discussion
billmoyers.com/story/maga-mov…
9th: @salon interview with Edmund Fawcett, author/@TheEconomist journalist
“There's no conservatism before the early 19th century. It's essentially a political movement of old, established elites who were used to ruling …”
salon.com/2020/10/24/how…
10th: "Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition"
(Really unreadable/uninspiring cover, @PrincetonUPress)
amazon.com/Conservatism-F…
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