18. The perception is in fact more important than the reality...
The perception of Goldwater as a hard-right conservative, rooted in his obnoxiously hawkish attitude toward socialism abroad and his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is as important to the GOP's extreme right-wing politics as Nixon's Southern Strategy.
He's also about the only opponent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act whose denial of racism I'm able to accept.
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