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Entry: Douthat: Rhymes with Oakeshott? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/douthat_rhymes_with_oakeshott#29513 Post contents: Helen, Please read my book on conservatism, which demonstrates that self-styled American conservatives were not more pro-segregationist than were most white Americans of the 1940s and 1950s. Nor were neocons more "liberal" than the Old Right on this issue,before they took power in the 1980s. Moreover, interest for the Old Right was never segregation per se but the fear that the civil rights movement and the mobilization of black voters would radicalize our government. In light of the last forty years of American history, this fear was amply justified; nonetheless, the black contribution to this mess has not been the only factor creating it. Sent at: 2009 01 08