When Samuel Moyn says "liberal" he means "Henry Wallace style progressivism". This was, of course, far from the heart of the New Deal majority, which consisted largely of working class Catholics in the North and small farmers (white small farmers) in the South. These voters were, of course, deeply antagonistic to the Soviet Union, someth…
When Samuel Moyn says "liberal" he means "Henry Wallace style progressivism". This was, of course, far from the heart of the New Deal majority, which consisted largely of working class Catholics in the North and small farmers (white small farmers) in the South. These voters were, of course, deeply antagonistic to the Soviet Union, something Moyn doesn't want to talk about. "Even" the Henry Wallace progressives had no real interest in helping black Americans, who they regarded basically as children who liked picking cotton, or working as maids or Pullman porters. Fifties liberals "discovered" civil rights and on race were far more progressive than the Thirties leftists that Moyn romanticizes. Of course, when Fifties liberals starting trying to use the federal government to help blacks, they lost the support of the "old" Democratic Party, the working class Catholics and southern small farmers.
When Samuel Moyn says "liberal" he means "Henry Wallace style progressivism". This was, of course, far from the heart of the New Deal majority, which consisted largely of working class Catholics in the North and small farmers (white small farmers) in the South. These voters were, of course, deeply antagonistic to the Soviet Union, something Moyn doesn't want to talk about. "Even" the Henry Wallace progressives had no real interest in helping black Americans, who they regarded basically as children who liked picking cotton, or working as maids or Pullman porters. Fifties liberals "discovered" civil rights and on race were far more progressive than the Thirties leftists that Moyn romanticizes. Of course, when Fifties liberals starting trying to use the federal government to help blacks, they lost the support of the "old" Democratic Party, the working class Catholics and southern small farmers.