[Conscience of a Conservative]

“The people in Arkansas should have called the troops bluff”

Or perhaps the people of Arkansas should have desegregated the schools before the troops were brought in.

[Bluewater2015]

Or perhaps the people of Arkansas should have desegregated the schools before the troops were brought in.

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I agree. But that was their decision to make.

[knarf]

"Or perhaps the people of Arkansas should have desegregated the schools before the troops were brought in."

We look back through the lens of history, but the lens of the present dictated THEY were the conscience of the Conservative

I understand your comment ... but I'm able to imagine myself in THAT particular situation

(PS .. I'm from Boston, so imagining me being a Southerner is a pretty good trick)