>>host: professor joseph lowndes from the university of oregon "from the new deal to the new right". >> as the author of a new book about how congress are rarely works called the waxman reporter i hope people will read that. it is nonfiction what i tend to read rather than fictional the willis faber i listen to books rather than read them brian listening to the book of the sequel to fiasco which was a fabulous book i just finished "the inheritance" of foreign policy problems this administration is inheriting and i'm looking forward to a book about the involvement of the united states in the middle east. i read the six days of four and i highly recommend the book it told me although i lived through that time and the arab neighbors and israel there are things i just did not know what had happened that is why i thought it was worthwhile and that is why i think it is one that people should listen to or read it tells you things that you really think you do know but you do not know the full story of the discussions or the controversies or the train offs to produce legislation people usuall

. >> joseph lowndes, from the new deal to the new right you argue that modern conservatism was founded in the south. why? >> the reason i make that claim is that i think, often people talk about southern strategy and capture of the south guy the g.o.p., after that he 1960s, beginning with goldwater and then, in nixon's 1972 election but i think in some ways, the situation is the reverse, that southerners played a key role in the development, both first in the conservative capture of the republican party, itself, and then, of republican ascendancy nationally and southern segregationist politics and northern conservatism were blended over time by various political actors in a way that allowed a national language of kind of racial resentment and opposition to federal state power and the democratic party generally. >> well, two questions arise from that answer, number one, how did they blend, and when did it begin? >> i think the story begins, decisively in the 1940s, the 1930s in congress, there is a conservative coalition which comes together after 1936, to resist some of fdr's political