Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Rutgers University.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.
Contents
Challenging the laws of nature: the New Deal and southern politics -- Drawing the color line: World II, race, and the South's political crucible -- Out of the bag?: the search for southern unity -- Setting the postwar agenda: civil rights, states' rights, and the tale of two conventions -- The Dixiecrat presidential campaign -- The cause lost: the decline of the Dixiecrat movement, 1949-1950 -- Cut free from the moorings: presidential politics in the South in the 1950s and 1960s.
