Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 459 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Santa Fe, Arg e-libro 2013 Recurso electronico; Disponible via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780817317935
Content:
The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the "Solid South" for the Democratic Party and how that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II. Relying on a sophisticated analysis of secondary research-as well as a wealth of deep research in primary sources such as letters, diaries, interviews, court cases, newspapers, and other archival materials-Glenn Feldman argues in The Irony of the Solid South that the history of the solid Democratic south is actually marked by several ironies that involve a co
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The "Reconstruction Syndrome" and the Calcification ofConservative Culture; 2. Elements of Democratic Solidarity and Discontent: Industry, Economics, Calvinist Religion, and Jim Crow; 3. For Blacks Only: The Perversion of Alabama Progressivism; 4. Race over Rum, Romans, and Republicans; 5. Placing Culture on Hold: The New Deal Coalition, Its First Cracks,and the "Great Melding" Takes Shape; 6. Splitting the New Deal Coalition Open; 7. The "Liberal South" and the Central Tragedy of Southern Politics
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8. Cheap Labor, the FEPC, and Frank Dixon as Knight- errant ofthe South9. Racial Challenge, White Reaction, and Chauncey Sparks as theNew Champion; 10. Race, Religion, and the "Status Quo Society"; 11. Liberals, Friends of the Negro, and Charging Hell with a Toothpick; epilogue: Since 1944; notes; selected Bibliography of Primary Sources; index
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Recurso electronico; Disponible via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817386702
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817317935
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Irony of the Solid South : Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944
Language:
English
