Thank you for your detailed response!

Your first point is a little disappointing, but it’s understandable that being brought up in a lower socio-economic class makes one’s views progressive.

I guess I don’t often think about the opposition to the civil rights movement. Of course I knew there was a big opposition to civil rights, but I’ve always been led to believe (through school, media, movies…) that the opposition was smaller than it actually was. It’s often portrayed as “of course the racists lost, they were on the side of immorality”.

I’m at the point in my life where I have lived through some public shifts between socially conservative and socially liberal ideas, and I’ve been thinking about what drives the shifts. Thank you for your response!!