Jimmy Carter in Newt!, by Dick Williams

On Principles & Values: New South: led party away from race-based conservatism

Twenty years ago, the notion of a New South embraced liberal and moderate Democrats who led their party away from the race-based conservatism of a century's practice. They seemed progressive to the national press, while presiding over courthouse business as usual at home. Jimmy Carter was a prime example. Today's New South is different, and the Gingrich Republicans are its political standard-bearers. Some are transplants from the North who bring Republican politics with them. Most are former Democrats from the South's small towns who went away to college and then moved to the metropolitan hubs for opportunity. They are more apt to be white-collar than not, more likely to have chosen to vote Republican than to have inherited party loyalty. Many are onetime Democrats for whom the party moved too far to the left. The Christian Coalition has mined those voters effectively for more than a decade. Source: Newt!, by Dick Williams, p.137 Jun 1, 1995

The above quotations are from Newt! Leader of the Second American Revolution, by Dick Williams. Click here for other excerpts from Newt! Leader of the Second American Revolution, by Dick Williams. Click here for other excerpts by Jimmy Carter. Click here for a profile of Jimmy Carter.
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