Northern liberals are the chief supporters of civil rights and of integration.
They have also led the nation in the direction of a welfare state. And both in their objectives of non-discrimination and of social progress they have had ranged against them the Southerners who are called Bourbons. The nature of the opposition between liberals and Bourbons is too little understood in the North. The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive. I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.