ABSTRACT
Many of the Old Right's political positions are smack in the conservative mainstream: privatizing Social Security, eliminating numerous cabinet-level positions and hundreds of other federal programs, a pro-life stand on abortion, and opposition to affirmative action and quotas. Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, California politics was divided into two regions: the Republican, conservative southern part of the state and the more liberal north. At its 1998 state convention, rank-and-file Texas Republicans denounced current immigration policies and adopted a resolution calling for a return to pre-1965 standards. Immigration was a problem, but it was symptomatic of a greater disease: namely, a lack of faith of peoples in Europe and North America in the very rightness of their civilization. No civilization can hope to survive never-ending waves of immigrants from cultures alien to its own. For the Old Right, the European future-and with it, western civilization—looked more dismisal than ever.
