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Confederacy as Conservative Party

The Confederacy being labeled as the conservative party and the implications of such a label on the understanding of its historical context and goals.

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Feb 2, 2026

In the Civil War was the confederacy the conservative party

Labeling the Confederacy as simply “” flattens a complex, historically specific movement whose central aim was to and a racialized social order, even as its leaders borrowed language of and states’ ri...