to public schools. The real estate lobby was especially fearful about public housing. Senator Kenneth Wherry discerned a "touch of socialism" in Taft, while his Ohio colleague Senator John Bricker speculated that perhaps the "socialists have gotten to Bob Taft". This distrust on the right hurt Taft's 1948 presidential ambitions. The Southern Agrarian wing drew on some of the values and anxieties being articulated on the anti-modern right, including the desire to retain the social authority and defend the autonomy of the American states and regions, especially the South. Donald Davidson was one of the most politically active of the agrarians, especially in his criticisms of the TVA in his native Tennessee. As Murphy (2001) shows, the Southern Agrarians articulated old values of Jeffersonian Democracy. Murphy writes: Instead, they rejected industrial capitalism and the culture it produced. In I'll Take My Stand they called for a return to the small-scale economy of rural America as a means to preserve the cultural amenities of the society they knew. Ransom and Tate believed that only by arresting the progress of industrial capitalism and its imperatives of science and efficiency could a social order capable of fostering and validating humane values and traditional religious faith be preserved. Skeptical and unorthodox themselves, they admired the capacity of orthodox religion to provide surety in life. Notable figures President William Howard Taft President Warren G. Harding President Calvin Coolidge President Herbert Hoover Senator Bennett Champ Clark, of Missouri Senator Josiah Bailey, of North Carolina Senator Harry F. Byrd, of Virginia Senator John W. Bricker, of Ohio Representative Howard Buffett, of Nebraska Representative Hamilton Fish III, of New York John T. Flynn William Randolph Hearst Raymond C. Hoiles Zora Neale Hurston Albert Jay Nock John J. Raskob Representative Eugene Siler, of Kentucky Governor Al Smith, of New York Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio Senator William E. Jenner, of Indiana Senator Strom Thurmond, of South Carolina Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, of Nebraska Senator Joseph McCarthy, of Wisconsin General Robert E. Wood Legacy Paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians are often considered the successors and torchbearers of the Old Right view in the late-20th century and the 21st century. Both of these groups often rally behind Old Right slogans such as "America First" while sharing similar views to the Old Right opposition to the New Deal and involvement in World War II against Hitler (including Old Right objections to economic programs