[lit-ideas] Re: Beard's The Rise of American Civilization
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:34:36 -0800
Andreas wrote:
The States' Rights issue became dormant (actually, it was disreputable)
until the 60s, when George Wallace (governor of Alabama) and others
brought it up again. The GOP has since then used it very effectively to
undermine federal government (specifically, to abolish all sorts of
legislation that protects women, children, the environment, the
workplace, Blacks, Latinos, gays, etc.)
In 1948, Strom Thurmond ran for president on the States' Rights
Democratic Party (the 'Dixiecrats').
Robert Paul
Reed College
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