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Author Feldman, Glenn.

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

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Democratic Party (U.S.)
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 20th century.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Southern States.
Chronological Term 1865-1950
Subject Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Race relations.
Politics and government.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Chronological Term 1865-1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Feldman, Glenn. Irony of the solid south. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2013 9780817317935 (DLC) 2012036142 (OCoLC)811777381
ISBN 9780817386702 (electronic book)
081738670X (electronic book)
9780817317935
0817317937