Neoconservatism began as a rightward racial realignment breaking with the civil rights movement

Evidence

By the early 1970s, it had been transformed into neoconservatism. Today, that political current is seen chiefly through its neoimperial agenda in Iraq and its alliance with the rightwing Israeli Likud Party, but we should remember that it began as a centerright racial realignment after breaking with the civil rights movement, not only the black power movement, but also the movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 56

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to contemporary discussions of neoconservatism’s origins and to the Nixon ‘southern strategy’; challenges standard narratives that frame neoconservatism chiefly as anti-Soviet foreign policy. — connects to: Neoliberals have readily allied with exclusionary and racist right-wing movements. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 24; Neoconservatives recoded the state itself as a threatening black institution — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1763; Racially conservative whites’ defection drove the Southern realignment (+3 more)