Until he went soft in his later years, Barry Goldwater was indeed the Conscience of a Conservative. My first vote cast for president was for Goldwater in 1964. And since this thread is about the South, by far the most Conservative part of America, Dixie led the way in that election with five great states of the Deep South repudiating liberalism and voting for a pro-American Patriot:
And to this day, the South remains the land of freedom as shown by its support of Right to Work laws, throwing off the tyranny of Big Labor slavemasters. Nowadays, it's the north (or at least much of it) where liberty is rejected by kowtowing to union fascism.
