Bophuthatswana also has the support of conservative whites who live in the farmland surrounding it.

Even a lot of conservative whites are angry.

And their attacks have deepened the resolve of some conservative whites to take the law into their own hands.

But a bigger question is what will happen among conservative whites.

They also argued, she said, that he could not attract big business to the party and would alienate conservative whites.

His attacks on school busing let conservative whites know where he stood.

He observed that conservative whites could mount a formidable fight.

This will hardly deter conservative whites, who see little wrong in inflicting their own brand of justice on blacks.

She also discovered that whites underestimate the size and energy of the black middle class, whose values are shared by many conservative whites.

But reaction among more moderately conservative whites was not half-bad.