I dont know how the Conservatives there kept from attacking those nuts. Not sure I could have.
Most of the kids probably came from the ultra-polite Southern aspiring professional class. They probably took one look at the protesters and said, "Why, bless their hearts!"
Seriously, though, it's never the conservatives who go in for civil disorder -- it's always the loony left. Conservatives always believe the right thing will be done, the commonsense thing, like that the police will restore order and ordinary decency. They are out of luck in today's ACLU-oppressed society.