The South has been such a critical long-term importance in the rise of conservatism for two reasons, which are getting them to prevail and basically racism alone. The South was a long-term importance in getting them to prevail because the White southerners were in control of the South when it came to pretty much everything, like who could and couldn’t sit where they wanted and who could and couldn’t drink from what water fountain. Therefore the South believed that the way things were was the best way and didn’t want to change anything , but Buckly thought the conservatives needed power, so in Why the South Must Prevail they believed that “Wresting the South from the Democrats would be a step toward such power.” Even though Buckly was on the Souths side when it came to race I believe they thought this because according to Platform of the States’ Rights Democratic Party “We affirm that the effective enforcement of such a program would be utterly destructive of the social, economic and political life of the Southern people, and of other localities in which there may be differences in race, creed or national origin in appreciable numbers” and if they took the four southern states back from the Democrats that they would look more powerful and in control.
