11. They would declare it either impossible (because it cost too much) or a violation of the sovereignty of the states. On that “constitutional” basis, the Supreme Court could usually be trusted to back them up.

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10. Over the years, the lyrics changed, but the tune stayed the same. If there was a Democratic president who wanted to do something good for the electorate that elected him with the power of the federal government, Republicans acted like it was an effort to dominate the country by force.

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9. Tapping into the fear that the government would ask the same of the states, Thurmond compared civil rights to totalitarianism.

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8. A classic example is Strom Thurmond’s “Dixiecrat” speech in 1948, given after Harry Truman desegregated the military. Thurmond was a defender of southern apartheid to the day he died.

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7. With that rhetoric, they made liberal virtues, like equality and justice for all, seem radical, while policies designed to manifest those virtues were made to seem treasonous.

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