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• all he saw in the Brown decision was coercion. And not just in the abstract. What the court ruling represented to him was personal. Northern liberals—the very people who looked down upon southern whites like him, he was sure—were now going to tell his people how to run their society. And to add insult to injury, he and people like him with property...
• Where did the federal government get the authority to engineer society to its liking and then send him and those like him the bill?
• individual liberty,”
• hard for most of us today to imagine how Buchanan or Darden or any other reasonable, rational human being saw the racially segregated Virginia of the 1950s as a society built on “the rights of the individual,” no matter how that term was defined,
• the attempt by the billionaire-backed radical right to undo democratic governance.