Charles Brown wrote:
>
> The deprecation of the Riders? motives and efficacy was not just a
> Southern conceit. New York-based Westbrook Pegler, the country?s leading
> conservative columnist, denounced them as "bands of insipid futilities
> of the type called bleeding hearts"
My assumption has always been that the use of this moldy cliche ("bleeding hearts") is a surer sign of deep racism than even the N word -- the cliche might be termed an expression of "the racism of the coward."
Carrol