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Northern liberals are the chief supporters of civil rights and of integration.

They have also led the nation in the direction of a welfare state.

And both in their objectives of non-discrimination and of social progress they have had ranged against them the Southerners who are called Bourbons.

The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.