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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>
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>
In 1948, when Democratic senator Glen H. Taylor protested segregation laws in Alabama, Connor arrested him. Liberal Alabama senator [[John Sparkman]], otherwise considerably quiet on racial issues by Southern standards of the time, openly supported Connor and derided his Idaho colleague as creating a publicity stunt.<ref name=frederickson/>
In 1948, when [[Idaho]] Democratic senator Glen H. Taylor protested segregation laws in Alabama, Connor arrested him. Liberal Alabama senator [[John Sparkman]], otherwise considerably quiet on racial issues by Southern standards of the time, openly supported Connor and derided his Idaho colleague as creating a publicity stunt.<ref name=frederickson/>
===Connor supports the Dixiecrat revolt, 1948===
===Connor supports the Dixiecrat revolt, 1948===