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The irony of the solid South : Democrats, Republicans, and race, 1865-1944 / Glenn Feldman.

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Main Author: Feldman, Glenn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Democratic Party (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The "Reconstruction syndrome" and the calcification of conservative culture
  • Elements of Democratic solidarity and discontent: industry, economics, Calvinist religion, and Jim Crow
  • For Blacks only: the perversion of Alabama progressivism
  • Race over rum, romans, and Republicans
  • Placing culture on hold: the New Deal coalition, its first cracks, and the "great melding" takes shape
  • Splitting the New Deal coalition open
  • The "liberal south" and the central tragedy of southern politics
  • Cheap labor, the FEPC, and Frank Dixon as knight-errant of the South
  • Racial challenge, white reaction, and Chauncey Sparks as the new champion
  • Race, religion, and the "status quo society"
  • Liberals, friends of the Negro, and charging hell with a toothpick
  • Epilogue: since 1944.

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