Serious question: did any significant conservative politician or intellectual support the sixties Civil Rights Movement **at the time**?
@yeselson All true but what I think is interesting is that there was a streak of conservatism that was suprisingly anti-racist before 1950.
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@HeerJeet Right. And I would argue, yes, it was political, but, also, ideological in a way that@CoreyRobin might posit. Hierarchy disrupted -
@yeselson@CoreyRobin Yes ideological commitment to hierarchy was central but in complicated way. Cold War & Southern White votes crucial.
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