The Old Right was an informal designation used for a branch of American conservatism that was most prominent c. 1910 to the mid 1950s but never became an organized movement. Most members were Republicans, although there was a conservative Democratic element based largely in the Southern United States. They were called the "Old Right" to distinguish them from their New Right successors who came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. Among the latter were Barry Goldwater, who came to prominence in the 1960s and favored an interventionist foreign policy to promote democracy and battle international communism.