Don’t miss Dan McCarthy’s funny and dead on summary of the belief system, such as it is, of mainstream conservatives:

Although America has made some mistakes in the past, those failings have been substantially rectified and to dwell upon them is anti-American. Evils that can be pinned specifically on Southerners, however, may be discussed without any suspicion of anti-Americanism. For these purposes, the South is a foreign country, like Germany.

The Best of Stephen W. Carson