, the American eugenics movement was rooted in California and New England – not the south. Just like today’s “Conservative Movement”, the “Eugenics Movement” was funded and controlled by American billionaires who viewed white and black southerners as targets – not allies and certainly not intellectual equals. This excerpt covers it rather well (see link below).

“California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics’ movement. During the Twentieth Century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.

Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically:

• The Carnegie Institution

• The Rockefeller Foundation

• The Harriman railroad fortune.

They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as

• Stamford

• Yale

• Harvard

• Princeton

These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.

Stanford president David Starr Jordan originated the notion of "race and blood" in his 1902 racial epistle "Blood of a Nation," in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood.

In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation's social service agencies and associations.”

The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796

I think this distiction important, because just like the Eugenics Movement in the 1900s, today’s “Conservative Movement” is funded and controlled by billionaires. Beginning in 1971, billionaires established foundations for the sole purpose of persuading Americans to accept and promote corporate power and extreme wealth and poverty. Today, just 9 of these foundation’s “assets” exceed $2-Trillion dollars.

Today’s billionaires operate the “Conservative Movement” inside ThinkTanks, that employ Ivy League trained employees to manufacture and promote propaganda.

Find introduction to billionaire funded machine here:

Tentacles of Rage, the Republican Propaganda Machine, by Lewis Lapham.

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/gned/laphamtentacles04.pdf