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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Joshua Tait

      1. Good thread on Russel Kirk & Jim Crow. The thing to note is that Kirk's 1958 editorial marked a shift in how Northern conservative intellectuals saw South. Kirk was from Michigan & previously not bad on race (he opposed Japanese American internment).https://twitter.com/Joshua_A_Tait/status/1161242119320662016 …

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      Joshua Tait @Joshua_A_Tait
      In 1958, the iconic conservative writer Russell Kirk edited a magazine issue on the American south. He wrote a 5-page editorial about enduring norms. He concluded that liberal opposition to Jim Crow was rage at southern intransigence to modernity. pic.twitter.com/ajC79rOQxi
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

      2. We tend to take the alliance of Northern and Southern conservative intellectuals for granted, but it's a product of an ideological shift from 1945-1960, a kind of precursor to the Southern strategy the GOP adopted in 1960s.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

      3. Prior to 1945, Northern conservative intellectuals & pundits (Mencken, Nock, Pegler) were blistering critics of white south, seeing it as cultural & moral backwater, & supported some measure of civil rights (primarily anti-lynching laws).

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

          4. The primary intellectual form of Southern conservatism tended to be traditionalist anti-capitalist (i.e. the agrarians) which clashed with the pro-business orientation of Northern conservatives. Also, of course, Republican party was minimal in South.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

          5. The post-1945 reconciliation of the South & North was a product of a variety of factors: the expansion of civil rights movement beyond anti-lynching to democratic rights, anti-communism, and the emergence of Dixiecrats as leading Southern opponents of liberalism

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

          6. William F. Buckley was a big part of this story, for very personal reasons: his mom was Southern and Buckley grew up in South Carolina on one of the biggest former slave plantations in America (originally owned by James Chestnut, who ordered firing on Fort Sumter)

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

          7. Buckley's South Carolina plantation was very old school, complete with black servants. "It was like Gone With The Wind," recalled Garry Wills. This was the emotional roots of Buckley's support for white Southern racism.

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

          8. At National Review, Buckley was in perfectly poised to promote the idea of the white South as a conservative bulwark, aided by writers like Richard Weaver and J.J. Kilpatrick. They created a new synthesis of northern & southern conservatism.

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Aug 2019

          9. All of which is to say that there was nothing inevitable about Northern conservative embrace of racist backlash politics in South. It was a choice. There were other paths open and other parts of their own tradition they could have turned to.

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        1. Benji Temchine  ⭐️ ⭐️‏ @BenTemchine 13 Aug 2019
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          Mencken was always against the moralizing of the south, the bad taste of the revival meeting as much as the chatauqua. He never had beef with white supremacy, only bad taste. Were his late stages a conservatism of booboisie or more a soft-focus nostalgia for the past/Baltimore

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