03172nam 2200589 450 991079720560332120230807221001.00-8173-8814-1(CKB)3710000000443709(EBL)2121718(OCoLC)913785369(SSID)ssj0001519150(PQKBManifestationID)12640065(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001519150(PQKBWorkID)11513197(PQKB)11354469(MiAaPQ)EBC2121718(MdBmJHUP)muse42244(Au-PeEL)EBL2121718(CaPaEBR)ebr11077184(EXLCZ)99371000000044370920150724h20152015 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe great melding war, the Dixiecrat rebellion, and the southern model for America's new conservatism /Glenn FeldmanTuscaloosa, Alabama :The University of Alabama Press,2015.©20151 online resource (401 p.)Modern SouthDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1866-6 Includes bibliographical references and index."We must not holler till we are clean out of the woods" -- Social Darwinism, free-market fundamentalism, and "The status quo society" -- "We must wake up the Roosevelt worshippers to what the New Deal is doing to torpedo White supremacy" -- Gathering clouds -- Grits and circuses -- The laws of God and Alabama -- Feeding the monster: volume I -- The inexorableness of cultural continuities -- An oasis of liberalism? -- Brewing rebellion -- They crucified us -- The conservative revolt against civil rights and the national Democratic Party -- The Dixiecrat revolt in perspective: meanings and "the southern road" to America's new conservatism -- "Let us not wince any more when we hear the word Republican" -- Conclusion.Audacious in its scope, subtle in its analysis, and persuasive in its arguments, The Great Melding is the second book in Glenn Feldman's magisterial recounting of the South's transformation from a Reconstruction-era citadel of Democratic Party inertia to a cauldron of GOP agitation. In this pioneering study, Feldman shows how the transitional years after World War II, the Dixiecrat episode, and the early 1950's formed a pivotal sequence of events that altered America's political landscape in profound, fundamental, and unexpected ways. Feldman's landmark work The Irony of the Solid South dismantleModern South.ConservatismSouthern StatesHistory20th centurySouthern StatesPolitics and government1865-1950United StatesPolitics and government1933-1945United StatesPolitics and government1945-1953ConservatismHistory320.975Feldman Glenn1504066MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797205603321The great melding3732847UNINA