Conservatives tend to favor institutions and behaviors that uphold "social order" and have a gradual history of development. One of the key proponents of conservatism in the 1790s was Edmund Burke, an 18th-century politician who opposed the French Revolution but supported the American Revolution. 1963's broadcast A part from An American Conservative showed Myrna Bain of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a conservative student group founded in 1960, debating Howard Radest of the Ethical Culture Society in a bowling alley in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. This ideology had potent… Read more
Edmund Burke opposed the French Revolution. His support of the American Revolution was not necessarily a wholesale endorsement of American ideals. Instead, he saw it as a pragmatic response against the overreach of British power.
The conservative ideology's appeal to non-Southerners, for example, could be viewed in the context of the broader societal shifts of the era, including the Civil Rights Movement and the counterculture of the 1960s.
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Burke's support for the American Revolution was more nuanced. He was in favor of the colonists' rights and opposed the British government's harsh treatment of them, not because he was against British power per se, but because he believed in the idea of just and fair governance.
The conservative ideology's appeal to non-Southerners was less about societal shifts and more about a response to growing federal power. In the face of civil rights legislation and other federal interventions, many Americans felt their autonomy was being compromised. This sentiment was not exclusive to the South; the Midwest and West also had strong libertarian streaks that aligned with this conservative ideology
