Excerpts from "White Protestant Nation" by Allan Lichtman

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"The modern right arose out of a widespread concern that pluralistic, cosmopolitan forces threatened America's national identity."

"The right has held together as a political movement since World War I through its core commitment to conserving white Protestant values and private enterprise, not free enterprise. American conservative politics is not about limited government, states' rights, individual freedom, or free markets. These are all dispensable ideas that the right has adjusted and readjusted to protect core principles."

"Both religion and race have mattered for conservatives who view nationhood as anchored in white, native-stock peoples and their distinctive culture. Since World War I, conservatives have been cultural, religious, and at times racial nationalists, dedicated to protecting America's superior civilization from racially or culturally inferior peoples, foreign ideologies, sexual deviance, ecumenical religion, or the encroachment of a so-called one-world government."

"Ultimately conservatives have engaged in a struggle for control over American public life against a liberal tradition that they have seen as not just wrong on issues but sinful, un-American, and corrosive of the institutions and traditions that made the nation great. TO achieve their ambitious aims, conservatives have had to stay disciplined, mobilize their resources, and wage total war against liberals, with unconditional surrender as the only acceptable result."

For a summary and reviews of the book, go to <http://www.amazon.com/White-Protestant-Nation-American-Conservative/dp/0802144209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255471224&sr=1-1>