President Richard Nixon and Conservatives

The Nixon/Lodge ticket is victorious. How do conservatives react and will they put up more than just token opposition if Nixon decides to run again in 1964?
 
Do you mean Conservative Republicans, or the Right in general (eg Dixiecrats)? In either case, it depends on how this President Nixon fares in the realm of civil rights; any other liberal/moderate achievements he may have in that same time (eg health care) are going to be seen through the lens of white america's gut reaction to that.
 
Do you mean Conservative Republicans, or the Right in general (eg Dixiecrats)? In either case, it depends on how this President Nixon fares in the realm of civil rights; any other liberal/moderate achievements he may have in that same time (eg health care) are going to be seen through the lens of white america's gut reaction to that.
I was thinking more of Conservative Republicans. I'm wondering if Strom Thurmond and others join the Republican party if a moderate got the nomination in 1964.
 
In the 1960 campaign, President Nixon could have pivoted toward the urban voter or the Southern voter. Despite the choice of Lodge and the supposed "Compact of Fifth Avenue" with Governor Rockefeller, Nixon was no liberal and his anti-Communist bona fides were there. I would argue that he would have governed from the Right albeit with a gloss that would have made it seem less draconian, less strident. The conservatives would have needed a hero and Goldwater would not have challenged Nixon. I doubt Goldwater would have run in 1968 but maybe.
 
Despite the choice of Lodge and the supposed "Compact of Fifth Avenue" with Governor Rockefeller, Nixon was no liberal and his anti-Communist bona fides were there. I would argue that he would have governed from the Right...
There's no contradiction between being a liberal and being super anti-communist; I don't think a Nixon elected in 1960 would have been more Consrvative than Eisenhower was, and could easily have had the same escalation of support for Civil Rights that Kennedy saw OTL.
 
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