Massive resistance birthed the New Right’s future-oriented conservative politics
Evidence
As the private-school plan made clear, massive resistance had the potential to reshape the political and social landscape of the South. Although its proponents framed their resistance as a way to stop the clock on racial change and preserve the customs of the past, in truth the movement represented the first significant step toward a new conservative politics more attuned to the future. … Massive resistance may have been presented to the people of the region and nation as an uncompromising preservation of the status quo but, as the experiences of Georgia demonstrate, from the very beginning, the politics of massive resistance represented fundamental and far-reaching changes. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 309
Categorization
- XREF: Directly extends the earlier ch5 structural claim linking Old South to New Right. — connects to: Suburban-style conservative trends originated in 1950s cities, not later suburbs — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 34; The Old South-New Right link is structural, not just coded language — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 32; White backlash against the Civil Rights Act delivered the South to the Republican Party — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 519 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- The New Right founders launched with grievances unrelated to abortion
#expands(0.82) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 234 - The century’s real subcultural resistance came from radical conservatives
#corroborates(0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 28 - The New Right consolidated unnoticed while the left focused on itself
#expands(0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 483