reactionaryism

as in conservativeness
attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions the region's entrenched reactionaryism made it one of the major battlegrounds for the civil rights movement in the 1960s

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“Reactionaryism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactionaryism. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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