Word: rightism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominance of Sunbelt conservatism in the nation. One proponent of the theory is Social Historian Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Power Shift, The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment. Sale argues that the Sunbelt is becoming the increasingly influential repository of "the three Rs"-rightism, racism and repression...
...Public Interest conservatives refuse to identify their cause with the status-anxious "little man," which Rightists from the late Tom Watson to George Wallace have attempted to do. Befitting high-level academics--Daniel Patrick Moynihan is among the contributors to "The American Commonwealth, 1976"--theirs is an elitist rightism. Like John Adams, the traditionalist of colonial days, they seem to have no greater fear than that of King...
...terms made sense then, but do they now, when an extreme leftist on one set of issues may be a rightist or a centrist on another set (as, for instance, in the conflict over big v. little government) and when the whole content of leftism and rightism shifts drastically from decade to decade? Much of the currency of our discussion (slavery, rebellion, treason) is Confederate money. We are, in short, victims of terminological conservatism...