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Abe, Kojire, 209 Abolition, 14 Abortion, 4, 9, 11, 17n6, 29, 30, 31, 32, 59–63, 186, 320, 321, 323, 324, 327, 332–33, 343n5, 345n6; as an election issue, 323, 332–33; civil disobedience and, 343n5; compared to civil rights, 354n45; death penalty for providers of, 9, 73n16; debated at state and local level, 357n60; judicial rulings on, 327 Abramoff, Jack, 315 Abu Ghraib, 315 Acts of the Apostles, 333 Aderholt, Robert, 73n11 Affirmative Action, 255–58, 277n67, 332, 335; Philadelphia Plan and, 255, 263, 280n79, 280n82 Afghanistan War, 324; deaths of civilian women and children, 346n8 Africa, 44 African Methodist-Episcopal Zion Church, 248, 274n38 Against the Grain, 50 Agnew, Spiro, 42; disliked by blacks, 241–42, 269n9 The Agony of the GOP, 1964, 355n47 AIDS, 356n55 Air America, 322, 348n19 Alabama, 1, 2, 5, 9, 21, 22, 44, 45, 64, 74n20, 106, 114, 223–24, 292, 322, 328, 331, 337, 353n40, 357n60; as a GOP stronghold, 1, 71, 355n49; as contested terrain, 16n1; Birmingham, 2, 100, 111, 113, 328, 351n28, 353n41; Black Belt of, 2; Christian Coalition and, 32; Constitution of 1901 and, 333; DeKalb County, 56; Etowah County, 57–58; evolution and, 75n37; gay and lesbian rights and, 58–59; Goldwater and, 234–35; Mobile, 105, 328; Montgomery, Index 330; Pike County, 56, 65, 72n7; prayer in schools and, 56, 57, 65–66, 72n7; Selma, 44, 100, 113, 330, 353n40; Southside of Birmingham, 2; strength of McCainPalin ticket in, 32; tax reform and, 10; Ten Commandments and, 57–58, 73n11; unpledged electors in 1960 and, 153 Alabama Mills, 211 Alaska, 32 Alberti, Dino, 122 Almond, J. Lindsay, Jr., 98, 105 Alsop, Joseph, 228, 229 Alsop, Stewart, 228 American Civil Liberties Union, 58, 65, 109 American Enterprise Institute, 340 American exceptionalism, 316. See also “Americanism”; Militarism; Patriotism American Independent Party, 175, 334 “Americanism,” 4, 7, 13, 23, 104, 327, 328; dissent and, 4 American Legion, 104 American Revolution. See Declaration of Independence Americans for Democratic Action, 297 American Spectator, 343n5 “American way of life,” 40, 41, 204, 292 Anglo-Saxon (Western) civilization, 291–313 Annapolis, 294 Anti-civil rights thought, 39–41 Anti-Defamation League, 38 Antidemocratic impulses, 7–8, 12, 226, 291–313, 343n5, 348n20. See also Apportionment ; Gerrymandering; Republic; Vote suppression Anti-intellectualism. See Liberalism; Media; Reality; Science Antilynching acts, 207 Antioch College, 105 Appalachia, 72, 82, 85, 95n9, 98 364 Index Applebome, Peter, 62 Apportionment. See Baker v. Carr; Countyunit system; Gerrymandering Aquinas, St. Thomas, 341 Arizona, 81, 105 Arkansas, 6, 8, 10, 38–54, 74n20, 81, 105, 154, 172–97; Fayetteville, 174; gay marriage and, 59; Hot Springs, 105; importance of black vote in, 187, 196n68; Little Rock, 41–42, 174; Petit Jean Mountain, 176, 185, 188; Searcy, 38. See also Harding College; Little Rock Arkansas Delta, 174, 181, 192 Arkansas Industrial Development Commission , 177, 185, 192 Arkes, Hadley, 343n5 Armey, Dick, 71, 338, 357n60 Arnall, Ellis G., 87 Atheism, 24, 40, 65, 91, 124, 179; Godlessness and, 13, 124, 326. See also Communism Atlanta Constitution, 91, 208 Atwater, Lee, 11, 322, 331, 332, 340–41 Austrian School. See Economic fundamentalism Avondale Mills, 201–6 Bailey, Fred Arthur, 4, 9, 14 Baker v. Carr, 110, 120n53 Bales, James, 13, 39–40, 45–46; book attacking Martin Luther King and, 45–46 Baptists, 23; moderates and, 62; race and, 145–46. See also Southern Baptist Convention ; Southern Baptists Barkley, Alben, 209 Barnes, Fred, 331 Barnett, Ross, 100, 101, 105 Barr, Bob, 71 Barr, John U., 208. See also Dixiecrats Barrow, John, 74n20 Barth, Jay, 181 Bartley, Numan V., 116n8, 117n12 Bass, Jack, 174 “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 295–96 Baylor University, 307 Bean, Jonathan, 281n88 Beatitudes, 333 Beck, Glenn, 317 Bell, Joann, 56, 65 Bell, L. Nelson, 25 Bennett, William, 298 Benson, George, 6, 8; Harding College and, 38–54; pro-segregation sermons and, 42, 43; support for anti-Martin Luther King book and, 46 Bentley, James L. “Jimmy,” 88, 91–92 Berlin, Isaiah, 355n49 Bible. See Religion bin-Laden, Osama, 346n10 Birmingham. See Alabama Birth control. See Sex Birth of a Nation, 305 Bison, 40, 42–46, 48 Black, Earl, 55, 70, 98, 186; “conservative advantage” and, 70 Black, Merle, 55, 70, 98; “conservative advantage” and, 70 “Black and Tans,” 230–32, 234; versus “Lily Whites” in Mississippi, 230–34 Black Americans for Nixon-Agnew, 248 Black Belt, 2, 85, 87, 88, 139–41, 143–45, 147–48, 152, 156 Blackburn, Ben, 88 Black Republicans, 137n94, 240–90; in Atlanta and, 79...

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