03069nam 2200553Ia 450 991046352200332120200520144314.00-8173-8670-X(CKB)3170000000060493(EBL)1191612(SSID)ssj0000886262(PQKBManifestationID)12374410(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886262(PQKBWorkID)10817558(PQKB)10665685(MiAaPQ)EBC1191612(OCoLC)844940527(MdBmJHUP)muse25329(Au-PeEL)EBL1191612(CaPaEBR)ebr10716509(EXLCZ)99317000000006049320120928d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe irony of the solid south[electronic resource] Democrats, Republicans, and race, 1865-1944 /Glenn FeldmanTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20131 online resource (352 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1793-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 coPolitical partiesHistory20th centurySouthern StatesPolitics and government1865-1950Southern StatesRace relationsHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Political partiesHistory975/.04Feldman Glenn1040116MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463522003321The irony of the solid south2492804UNINA