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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814133003321

Autore

Frederickson Kari A

Titolo

The Dixiecrat revolt and the end of the solid South, 1932-1968 / / Kari Frederickson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001

ISBN

979-88-908708-3-4

0-8078-7544-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

324.273/3

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences) - Southern States - Political activity - History - 20th century

Presidents - United States - Election - 1948

Southern States Politics and government 1951-

Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950

Southern States Race relations Political aspects

United States Politics and government 1933-1945

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Rutgers University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Challenging the Laws of Nature; 2. Drawing the Color Line; 3. Out of the Bag?; 4. Setting the Postwar Agenda; 5. The Dixiecrat Presidential Campaign; 6. The Cause Lost; 7. Cut Free from the Moorings; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In 1948 a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats". This volume situates the Dixiecrat movement within the tumultuous social and economic milieu of the 1930's and 1940's South.