Ideology Clash Quotes



Huntington classified the 1876 Senate into 3 categories. 'Clean' were those who voted his way but required no bribes. 'Commercial' voted his way but needed fiscal incentive. 'Communists' were those Senators who opposed his legislative agenda.


In the beginning of the Cold War, the Communists of the world frequently attacked the United States for its Racial Segregation and Discrimination before the Civil Rights Bill was passed. It was one of the great shames and weaknesses of America as slavery had been earlier. Southern racists then conflated the civil rights issue and Communism. Since all communists seemed opposed to segregation, then it followed, they erroneously reasoned, that all opponents of segregation were communists. See {622175} for another of Helms vicious smears using this twisted logic.