Jarlaxle
Gold Member
If you supported states rights in the civil rights battles in the 20th century, you were conservative on the issue.
That is what conservatism is on the issue of states' rights vs. the power of the federal government.
If you supported the right of states to segregate their schools, you were conservative on that issue.
If you supported the right of states to allow businesses to discriminate on the basis of race, you were conservative on that issue.
If you supported the right of states to outlaw interracial marriage, you were conservative on that issue.
That is what conservatism is. It doesn't matter what party you belong to. Some of you need to stop depressing the rest of us with your profound ignorance;
I think most of us with brains would like to maintain at least an iota of faith in there being at least a minimum amount of the same in the rest of you. Stop disappointing us.
This subject is waaay too much fun
So cabineer? Those southern CONSERVATIVES supported Roosevelt and his ideals.....doesnt sound too conservative to me....wasnt that expanding government power?
and I ask you
in which Presidential election, did the democrats have the more consevative candidate????????
I think JFK could be considered, but not too entirely certain.
Kennedy's about the only one I can think of...he's the only Democrat my grandmother (conservative Republican her entire life, to the dismay of her mostly-Democrat family) ever voted for in a major race. She voted for him because he was "as conservative" as Nixon. Also because she thought Nixon came off as "a creep".
Hey, I'd say she was dead-on in that assessment!
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