>I thought neo-conservatives ideologues (though not followers) were
>mainly former _leftists_ (not liberals) who decided that while they
>were against slavery & Jim Crow, they didn't like blacks after all
>because they were loud & also that abortion was a sin.
>
>The myth of a liberal who was mugged & became neo-conservative,
>however, has a virtue of highlighting the centrality of criminal
>justice in the production of race.
Yes. Race plays a big role in lots of rightward slides, and it's always accompanied by tales of crime, reproductive excess, vulgarity, and the rest. You find it not only in neocons, but among Dissentoids and New York liberals too.
Doug