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This is a good article by Boyd Cathey on one aspect of what occurred:

How Neoconservatives Destroyed Southern Conservatism

Of course it's nonsense.

The older Southern conservatism wasn't as benign as he implies.

Today conservatism in the South reflects aspects of the old and the new South more than anything alien and neoconservative.

And, overheated language aside, the author doesn't show that what he favors would be much of an improvement.

But what does it have to do with Richard Wagner?

[Pelham]

Was it addressed to you?

[ek_hornbeck]

The older Southern conservatism wasn't as benign as he implies. Today conservatism in the South reflects aspects of the old and the new South more than anything alien and neoconservative. And, overheated language aside, the author doesn't show that what he favors would be much of an improvement. But what does it have to do with Richard Wagner?

Here's what it has to do with Wagner: the mentality of apologetic self-hatred and self-flagellation that motivates politically correct Germans to blacklist Wagner's music (Richard Wagner Platz in Leipzig was recently renamed "willkommene Flüchtlinge Platz" = "Welcome Refugees Platz") is identical to the mindset of politically correct Americans who want to purge Confederate monuments and anything else that might offend overly sensitive "minorities" and Social Justice Warriors.