This piece was originally published in the 3rd Quarter 1995 issue of Southern Partisan Magazine.
Though a free-market capitalistic system seems to have been a bedrock of America's conservatism, according to Genovese, its overemphasis partially belies the full history of conservatism, partially lost and partially diffused since 1865. The preservation of Christian orthodoxy and individualism; advocacy of representative democracy; broad ownership of property; and free-market economy bounded within limits of morality—these are the qualities of the southern tradition that seem lacking in today's matrix of conservatism.
-Won Kim
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