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That’s right, Webb isn’t a Dixiecrat or a conservative. He’s simply an old-school, Harry Truman or JFK-style liberal, as opposed to a leftist radical like most contemporary Democrats.

Some of those Dixiecrats were hardly conservative, just old-school New Deal liberals who happened to be against civil rights.

As for Harry Truman and JFK-style liberals, many of their goals have already been achieved, so it's hard to say what their old-time liberalism would mean today.

When people say that JFK would be a conservative or a Republican if he were around today (which I don't really think, if only because it would mean bucking the rest of the family), what would that make Webb?

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Some of those Dixiecrats were hardly conservative, just old-school New Deal liberals who happened to be against civil rights.

Some were pro-New Deal, some were against it. On the other hand, most Dixiecrats were solid supporters of state's rights and right to work laws.