ABSTRACT
The political conservatism is directly tied up with the Negro problem in several ways. The devices inaugurated to disfranchise Negroes, the one-party system, the low political participation on the part of the white masses, and other peculiarities of Southern politics, all tend to give a disproportionate power to classes, groups and individuals who feel their interests tied up with conservatism in social issues. Southern liberalism is not liberalism as it is found elsewhere in America or in the world. It is molded by the forces of the region where it carries out its fight. As social change gains momentum in the South, the future of Southern liberalism might become great. Many women's organizations, for instance, the American Association of University Women or the League of Women Voters, are locally strong forces for liberalism. Southern liberalism has aristocratic traditions.
