the movement toward greater and greater fulfillment of the liberal principles of the Revolution and early republic was relentless, certainly from the Southern point of view. The Southern Democratic Party and the conservative antiliberal white Protestant forces in the Republican Party had been the twin pillars of the antiliberal movement. But between the Depression and the war, the conservative antiliberal wing of the Republicans had been widely discredited and pushed to the fringe. The dominant forces in the party were now moderate and liberal. The first Republican president since 1928, Dwight
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