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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783379103321

Autore

Schulman Bruce J.

Titolo

From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt : federal policy, economic development, and the transformation of the South, 1938-1980 / / Bruce J. Schulman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

0-19-771329-7

1-280-52373-5

1-4237-3641-9

0-19-536344-2

1-60129-724-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Disciplina

338.975/009/04

Soggetti

Economic assistance, Domestic - Southern States

Southern States Economic policy

Southern States Economic conditions 1918-

Southern States Politics and government 1865-

Southern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction: Becoming Economic Problem No. 1; 2. ""Wild Cards and Innovations,""; 3. The Wages of Dixie; 4. ""Bulldozers on the Old Plantation,""; 5. Persistent Whiggery: Federal Entitlements and Southern Politics; 6. Missiles and Magnolias; 7. ""Shadows on the Sunbelt,""; 8. Conclusion: Place Over People; Essay on Selected Sources; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a carefully executed study of the effects of federal economic policy in transforming the American South from the time of the New Deal to the present. Decrying the South's economic backwardness and political conservativism, the Roosevelt Administration launched a series of aggressive programs to reorder the Southern economy. A generation of young liberal Southerners entered the national government to preside over these policies. After 1950, however, Keynesianism



replaced New Deal reform as the mainstay of national economic policy, and the national security state supplanted the social we