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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Hope everyone is doing well (if feeling especially angry with Republicans lately). I thought I would add a few comments from reading the string. Grokca: actually there [i]is[/i] a Conservative Party in the United States, but they are confined, to my best knowledge, to the state of New York. It is a reaction against the Republican Party of that state which was dominated for so long by the "Rockafeller Republicans." (Well, still kind of is with Pataki and Bloomberg.) This variety of Republican tends toward a brand of mercantilism, i.e., governmental support of corporations and a much higher degree of comfort with intervention in social issues. The most famous Conservative Party member was Christopher Buckley, who served one term in the U.S. Senate in the late Sixties/early Seventies. He is also the brother of the founder of [i]The National Review[/i], William F. Buckley, Jr. Wraith: I was wondering the same thing about Australia watching the Olympics. I was hoping some of you all might have known. TSN: one think I consistently heard through school starting in elementary school was that the Revolution was a "conservative revolution." The idea was that the deeper tradition in English constitutionalism was that commoners would have a hand in the governance and monitoring of the executive (i.e., the king) before economic policy was approved. From an ocean away, it was next to impossible for Americans to exert the kind of citizen control over government that had been developing since the English Parliament of 1265. Nim: I would say there is no real chance of open conflict between the parties in America. The Civil War was uniquely geographical in its dynamics and I don't see the same contiguity necessary for pieces of the country to start breaking off. Without getting too deep into the issue, that war was a result of different economics systems working better in different locations in the nation. The core features of those systems were on a collision course. That why it was states fighting each other, and not populations. Jay: yes, the North was a mixture of parties. However, from what I remember, the South was almost exclusively Democratic. (There were still some Whigs left from John Tyler's administration.) I'm not even sure that Lincoln appeared on the ballot in most of those states. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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