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You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag episode)

Know Your Enemy

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From the New Deal to the New Right by Joe Lowndes

Matt Welch: How do you think the Dixie crafts, Wallace Thurman and the like, shaped the modern conservative movement? He says they are somewhat distinct from both the national view set and the sort of Nixon and Reagan era conservative. Welch: I've mentioned this book before by Joe Lowndes, L-O-W-N-D-E-S. It's called From the New Deal to the New Right. And it makes a case that the right had their eye on the Southern Democrats who were kind of hostile to maybe elements of the New Deal.

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