Conservative strategists judged school segregation too unpopular a rallying issue

Evidence

But they had a problem. As Weyrich understood, building a new movement around the burning issue of defending the tax advantages of racist schools wasn’t going to be a viable strategy on the national stage. “Stop the tax on segregation” just wasn’t going to inspire the kind of broad-based conservative counterrevolution that Weyrich envisioned. They needed an issue with a more acceptable appeal. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 253

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Segregationist schools’ tax-exemption fight catalyzed the New Right movement — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 251; Conservative strategists deliberately coded racial appeals to evade egalitarian norms — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 3; Elected officials and schools mobilized en masse against desegregation — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 932

Broader Connections

• Conservative strategists deliberately coded racial appeals to evade egalitarian norms #corroborates (0.85) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 3
• Elected officials and schools mobilized en masse against desegregation #complicates (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 932