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U.S. senator and secretary of war, Davis presided over the Confederate States during the Civil War, defending secession, states' rights and slavery as the basis of the South's social and economic order.
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Jefferson Davis leans further toward federal than 94% of the 645 personalities in the catalog.
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Political tradition of the nineteenth-century American South tied to the Confederacy, defending states' rights and secession, an agrarian, patriarchal and Christian society, free trade and a military tradition. Historically, this tradition also defended slavery and racial hierarchy.
American conservative current associated with Ronald Reagan. It combines lower taxes and a smaller federal economic role with free enterprise, traditional religious values, anticommunism and military strength.
Current that rejects modern democracy and egalitarianism and proposes replacing them with hierarchical, efficient governments run like companies by a sovereign, combining traditionalism and technology.
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Left AccelerationismLeft28%
U.S. vice president and South Carolina senator, Calhoun formulated the doctrines of nullification and the concurrent majority and defended slavery as a positive good, inspiring Southern secession.
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Deep South state of the United States, Alabama combines strong Protestant religiosity, states' rights, low taxes and an aerospace industry in Huntsville, with a legacy of racial segregation and dependence on federal funds.
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Formed by the secession of eleven Southern states to preserve slavery, the Confederate States combined radical state confederalism, a traditionalist and religious agrarian society, and free trade, before being defeated in the Civil War.
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