the common assumption about the inevitability of liberalism has led to constant underestimation of the power of antiliberal sentiments in America. We simply assume that, with time, people become enlightened. Yet the views of white Southerners did not change: not in the 1870s, when they fought against Black equality; not in the 1920s, when the second Klan spread across the South like wildfire; not in the 1960s, when George Wallace spoke for millions when he declared “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” And not today, when the unwarranted killing of Black people by
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