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25 1 2022 Backlash
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hello and welcome to our lecture on the
conservative backlash today we'll be
looking at the conservative backlash of
the late 60s and early 70s
we'll define the southern strategy the
republican party will begin using from
this point forward we'll look at what
events eroded trust in america's
political institutions those are
basically different parts of the
government and which groups comprised
the new right so we're gonna have a
different kind of coalition of people
who are conservative on the right of the
political spectrum coming to the fore in
the late 60s and 70s so let's take a
look at those groups
now by 1968 most americans wanted to
find a way out of the war in vietnam but
they also disliked anti-war protesters
the conservative backlash began in
response to the increasing demands of
black indigenous and people of color
conservatives resented what they
considered black americans in gratitude
at the civil rights measures already
enacted by the federal government and
many conservatives saw the warren
court's expansion of individual rights
which we talked about as an intrusive
federal government extending its control
over matters previously left to local
communities to decide
around the nation on the local level
acts of police brutality shocked
communities and led to reform and the
formations of internal affairs
departments which are pretty standard today
today
in which police investigated police misconduct
misconduct
but rising crime rates worried
conservatives more than police brutality
and they associated crime with urban
black people
conservatives criticized the war on
poverty for spending taxpayer dollars on
quote-unquote unworthy even criminal citizens
citizens
and working-class whites resented the
affluent university student protesters
as well as the black and latino poor
targeted by some of these great society programs
programs
additionally many catholic and some
protestant christians were troubled by
the legalization of contraceptives even
if only for married couples at first
and incensed by the ban on requiring
protestant school prayer and on
requirements for even private schools to
integrate racially if they wanted to
receive tax dollars
protestant fundamentalists fought back
through increased political involvement
they initiated a grassroots religious
conservative movement which rejected
many of the challenges to american
society made by those 1960s movements we
discussed before the exam
now it's important to remember that all
of those movements in the 1960s
including the civil rights movements
were the minority of the population and
while they managed to change society
drastically they were never the majority
so this backlash is going to be made up
of the majority of americans who aren't
real comfortable or outright dislike
these changes
republican leaders from barry goldwater
to richard nixon to ronald reagan gave
voice to this resentment felt by the
majority of americans and they began to
break that new deal coalition of voters
we had talked about in the 1930s and since
since
white moderates and black voters had
supported the democrats in 1964 after
the democrats embraced civil rights
this left the gop that is the republican
party with two options they could either
support civil rights to try to win some
of those voters back or they could stand
against civil rights and federal
authority to try to win white
southerners who are now pretty upset
with and abandoning the democratic party
republicans decided to embrace those
white voters who opposed civil rights in
their southern strategy which began
during goldwater's 1964 campaign and you
can see the newspaper article on the
slide there talking about this
particular type of republican that's now
kind of taking over that party a
goldwater republican
this is especially true of the
republican party in the south so these
republicans opposed the civil rights
movement they demanded a very small
federal government certainly not with
the power to enforce civil rights but
they do want a big military they want to
expand the military and they supported
direct military action against communism
while not a klansman himself goldwater
was publicly endorsed by the ku klux klan
klan
and while goldwater lost in a landslide
in 1964 after that dayz ad that we
watched in an earlier lecture the gop
had won the south for the first time ever
ever
nixon then used the southern strategy to
secure the presidency in 1968
the party embraced its fiercely
conservative anti-civil rights voters in
the south and west
goldwater was good friends with former
u.s senator prescott bush whose son
texas senator george h.w bush was a
goldwater supporter
future president ronald reagan appeared
in a goldwater campaign ad so we can see
kind of the future of the party moving
in this direction
and both of these men would use the
southern strategy to win election in the
coming decades
now 1968 was called the year of the gun
and it set the stage for a conservative backlash
backlash
the tet offensive in vietnam had
occurred that january which we discussed
in the vietnam lecture then on april 4th
a gunman named james earl ray
assassinated dr martin luther king jr in
memphis where he had gone to support a
strike by sanitation workers
let's take a look at how the nation
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