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050	1	4	_a002 E 185.625 _bC323f 1996
082	0	0	_a305.8/00973
100	1		_aCarter, Dan T.
245	1	0	_aFrom George Wallace to Newt Gingrich : _brace in the conservative counterrevolution, 1963-1994 / _cDan T. Carter.
260			_aBaton Rouge : _bLouisiana State University Press, _cc1996.
300			_axv, 134 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aThe Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a1. The Politics of Anger -- 2. The Politics of Accommodation -- 3. The Politics of Symbols -- 4. The Politics of Righteousness.
520			_aIn this trenchant survey of the last three decades, the historian Dan Carter focuses on the evolution of race as an issue in presidential politics. Drawing on his broad knowledge of recent political history, he traces the "counterrevolutionary" response to the civil rights movement since George Wallace's emergence on the national scene in 1963 and detects a gradual confluence of racial and economic conservatism in the coalition that reshaped American politics from the.
520			_a1970s through the mid-1990s. According to Carter, economic and social conservatives have denied any link between what neoconservatives have called the "new majoritarianism" and the politics of race, and Republicans have eschewed acknowledging Wallace as an influence, much less as a model. But the fundamental differences between the coarse public rhetoric of the Alabama governor and the smoother arguments of the new conservatism, Carter maintains, have been more a matter.
520			_aof style than of substance: in Richard Nixon's subtle manipulation of the busing issue, in Ronald Reagan's genial, avuncular attacks on affirmative action, in George Bush's use of the Willie Horton ads, and in Newt Gingrich's demonization of welfare mothers, the Wallace music played on. The new rhetoric may lack Wallace's visceral edge, Carter asserts, but it reflects the same callous political exploitation - now professionally packaged and test-marketed - of the raw.
520			_awounds of racial division in our country.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1945-1989.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1989-
650		0	_aConservatism _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
830		4	_aThe Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history.
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