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In 1937, he was elected Commissioner of Public Safety of Birmingham, Alabama,<ref name=alencyclopediabio/> and served in the position throughout the span of three decades. Affiliated with the business hierarchy, Connor favored low taxes and limited government in accordance with Southern Jeffersonian ideals, though maintained his appeals to the working-class base as an unconditional segregationist and opponent of crime.<ref name=alencyclopediabio/>
In 1937, he was elected Commissioner of Public Safety of Birmingham, Alabama,<ref name=alencyclopediabio/> and served in the position throughout the span of three decades. Affiliated with the business hierarchy, Connor favored low taxes and limited government in accordance with Southern Jeffersonian ideals, though maintained his appeals to the working-class base as an unconditional segregationist and opponent of crime.<ref name=alencyclopediabio/>
Even by the early 1940s, when most segregationist Southern Democrats sharply broke with FDR, Connor referred to him as "[having] been a fine president" despite breaking with the national Administration over the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC).<ref>Gerstle, Gary; Lichtenstein, Nelson; O'Connor, Alice (November 29, 2019). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_the_New_Deal_Order/jVnHDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bull+connor+new+deal&pg=PA47&printsec=frontcover Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession], p. 47. ''Google Books''. Retrieved October 3, 2023.</ref>
===Connor supports the Dixiecrat revolt, 1948===
===Connor supports the Dixiecrat revolt, 1948===