... North Carolina veterans nation-state rights race gender emancipation Greater Reconstruction Stockade State cultural legislation conservatism veterans The Civil War has claimed a prominent place in US history in part because it was such a massive, destructive conflict. But the scope of the war...

... of this transformation, based in large part on the perception that Texas has always been a conservative place, might suggest that—as Ronald Reagan, the preeminent icon of modern conservatism, once similarly quipped—Texas did not leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left Texas. Yet the political changes...

... Vance Cyrus Percy Charles Smith Alex Afghanistan Soviet invasion of Mondale Walter Ben Wattenberg McGovern Party Reforms Vital Center Coalition for a Democratic Majority Neo-Conservatism The Real Majority The “Little Flower” understood schisms. Acknowledging, “The trouble with us liberals...

...This chapter explores Southern Baptist racial ideology during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the American South. It clarifies the enduring ties between racial conservatism and related regional orthodoxies in politics, morality, and economics. It explains how upper-class...

...This chapter examines the conflict between liberalism and conservatism in Alabama in terms of a metaphor, the Mercedes Culture versus the Pine Tree Culture. It predicts that the political party could be replaced by religion as the driving force in American politics. It suggests that this Mercedes...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the relationship between religion and politics in the American South. The history of the South has been, most fundamentally, the story of the struggle between liberalism and conservatism in a variety of venues and in a spectrum...

... Wilkins T A communism labor Great Depression free speech liberalism academic freedom radicalism conservatism UNC campus events in the early 1930s seemed to confirm David Clark's suspicions that the university was the “refuge of radicals and socialists.” In May 1931, British socialist Harold Laski...

...The rise of modern Texan conservatism experienced a critical turning point in 1976. The war was essentially a split between the established party leadership, still committed to making Texas a two-party state, and a populist conservative grass roots energized by surging antiliberalism, a nationally...

...An intellectual biography of Russell Kirk (1918–1994), this book offers the first full examination of his life and thought as it developed over the course of the twentieth century. As almost all would agree, Kirk served as the father of postwar conservatism, but he did so in a way that promoted...

...Chapter 3 explores Kirk’s life from the end of his conscription in 1946 to the publication of his dissertation in 1953. It examines Kirk’s time in Scotland as well as the development of his ideas on conservatism as rooted in the thought of the Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke. Finally, it retells...

...This book attempts to get at the intersection of politics and religion in the American South. The chapters in this book strongly suggest that in the South, religion has worked hand in hand with political and social conservatism and that the region's politics have, in turn, reflected its...