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During C-SPAN's three-hour interview with conservative writer David Horowitz, on 10/7/07, Horowitz reported that Democrats believe that institutions change people and that Republicans reject that idea. Perhaps he knew he was being simplistic, but he was worse than simplistic. Unwittingly he was crediting Democrats with right thinking. Across history people have changed with changing institutions, despite their unchanging biologies. The U.S. Constitution was a part of this institutional change. And there was institutional change in the form of Supreme Court decisions. These decisions changed people. The United States, including the Deep South, is not the same in 2007 as it was in 1954. For sure there are conservatives who recognize this, but David Horowitz is not an articulate representative of conservatism.
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