How the Future Shapes Our National History with Heather Cox Richardson
The Preamble
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The Federal Government Protecting Civil Rights Was a Weapon That Really Worked
By 1954 in a fairly well-known book, they began to divide Americans between capital C conservatives and what they call liberals. And those liberals, they said, were essentially socialists or communists. They had a real problem because Americans actually liked the federal government doing all the things that I just talked about. So instead they began consciously to divide the country in two.
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