The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968

by Frederickson, Kari

• ISBN13: 9780807825945
• ISBN10: 0807825948
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Places the State's Rights Democratic Party within the social and economic milieu of the 1930s and '40s South, tracing struggles between conservative and liberal Democrats over the region's future. Covers local activity in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, showing how, even without upsetting Truman in 1948, the Dixiecrats altered politics in the South by severing the traditional allegiance to the national Democratic Party and making way for the rise of the Republic Party.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Challenging the Laws of Nature: The New Deal and Southern Politics	11	(17)
Drawing the Color Line: World War II, Race, and the South's Political Crucible	28	(39)
Out of the Bag?: The Search for Southern Unity	67	(51)
Setting the Postwar Agenda: Civil Rights, States' Rights, and the Tale of Two Conventions	118	(32)
The Dixiecrat Presidential Campaign	150	(37)
The Cause Lost: The Decline of the Dixiecrat Movement, 1949--1950	187	(30)
Cut Free from the Moorings: Presidential Politics in the South in the 1950s and 1960s	217	(22)
Notes	239	(46)
Bibliography	285	(18)
Index	303