The Old South-New Right link is structural, not just coded language

Evidence

While this study does not discount the importance of such language and imagery, it argues that the connections between the Old South and New Right run much deeper than mere rhetorical appeals to racism. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 32

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the standard scholarly line that modern conservatism merely recycled Wallace’s coded appeals; this structural claim matters to the reader’s causal analysis. — connects to: Massive resistance birthed the New Right’s future-oriented conservative politics — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 309; 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