Talk:Florence King

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Has anyone got a reference for the Episcopalian practice? The site currently at the end of that sentence only specifies her atheism. Leon 11:54, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

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Additional possible refs
Just FYI. Lawikitejana (talk) 09:16, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Barbara Creaturo. "Please look away, Dixie Land" (book review of Confessions), The New York Times, February 10, 1985.
 * Ross C. Reeves. "Florence King: Southern sense and sensibility" (review of Florence King Reader), The Virginian-Pilot, March 12, 1995, page J2.

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On why she quit UMiss
I've changed the story of why she left UMiss because it refers to an unavailable source which is wildly in conflict with the account in her autobiography. This is definitely a BLP issue where we cannot depend on unverifiable sources; I'm not happy about having to go with a primary source but the old text cannot be restored unless someone can produce it. Mangoe (talk) 18:13, 7 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Having managed to get at the page through Internet Archive it's clear that it doesn't state that she quit UMiss because her lover was killed. It's not even clear that its source is anything other than King's book. Mangoe (talk) 20:04, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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I've left this passage as is for the moment:

"King was a traditionalist conservative, but not a "movement conservative," and she objected to much of the populist direction of the contemporary American Right.[1] She was an active Episcopalian (though she often referred to her agnosticism),[1] a member of Phi Alpha Theta, and a monarchist."

because I am trying to come up with a more nuanced approach. It is a good passage as written, but as one sees in the source, she made these points in 1998 based on a position she had held already by then for many years. The populism she decried was one she had seen emerging in American conservatism since the beginnings of its modern incarnation in the 50s and 60s. That being what was called "movement conservatism". The one that culminated with the Reagan Administration and then went all sectarian and splintered.

King almost belongs, or perhaps does belong, with the category sometimes called "paleoconservatism", as opposed to "neoconservatism", a slippery term but one which has more or less gelled in the past 25 years

All of which might ultimately be meaningless but in the times we are living in now [written 2019], the term "traditionalist conservative" or traditional conservative tend now to get applied to exactly the sorts of things King opposed. Random noter (talk) 14:29, 21 November 2019 (UTC)