tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post396654819408978207..comments2024-03-28T02:46:03.227-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: Richard Nixon: Victim of Religious Prejudice and Religious PluralismRandallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-48366070778371144822012-11-01T17:15:42.519-04:002012-11-01T17:15:42.519-04:00Glad this comment reminded me to revive this post,...Glad this comment reminded me to revive this post, because I, too, found it fascinating. I've just read through RMN's Memoirs, and more even than his post-defeat rationalization, this suggests to me his incredible paranoia. No matter what happened, there were Enemies Waiting To Get Him. And he defined them all as a members of some un-American "group" he could find a patriotic reason to hate. <br /><br />But I had never thought of Catholics as being one of those groups. <br /><br />Thanks for this, Chris.hcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334093881332383848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-5245545243351523772012-10-31T22:47:35.278-04:002012-10-31T22:47:35.278-04:00Or maybe Nixon was just engaging in post-defeat ra...Or maybe Nixon was just engaging in post-defeat rationalization. He lost Georgia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, and Arkansas in 1960. Wouldn"t these be "states containing the pockets of fundamentalist anti-Catholic prejudice that still existed" that he could possibly have won? Al Smith lost West Virginia and North Carolina in 1928.Midwest Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05566917559235663902noreply@blogger.com