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Paths out of Dixie : the democratization of authoritarian enclaves in America's deep south, 1944-1972 / / Robert Mickey



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Autore: Mickey Robert Visualizza persona
Titolo: Paths out of Dixie : the democratization of authoritarian enclaves in America's deep south, 1944-1972 / / Robert Mickey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Edizione: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (582 p.)
Disciplina: 320.4750904
Soggetto topico: Democratization
Democratization - Southern States
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950
Southern States Politics and government 1951-
Soggetto non controllato: African Americans
American political development
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act 1964
Clemson College
Deep South
Dixiecrats
Georgia
Harry S. Truman
Herman Talmadge
James Meredith
Mississippi
National Democratic Party
Reconstruction
Republicans
Smith v. Allwright
South Carolina
South
States' Rights Party
U.S. Supreme Court
University of Georgia
University of Mississippi
Voting Rights Act 1965
White Citizens' Council
authoritarian enclaves
authoritarian rule
black education
black insurgency
black politics
black protest
democracy
democratic rule
democratization
desegregation
economic development
elites
factional conflict
harnessed revolution
intraparty conflict
massive resistance
one-party rule
party factionalism
party reforms
party-state capacity
partyгtate institutions
political authority
political culture
political development
political geography
presidential elections
racial equality
regime change
subnational authoritarianism
subnational democratization
suffrage
voting rights
white primary
white supremacy
Classificazione: NK 4600
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part One: Deep South Enclaves, 1890-1940 -- 1. Southern Political Development in Comparative Perspective -- 2. The Founding and Maintenance of Southern Enclaves, 1890-1940 -- 3. Deep South Enclaves on the Eve of the Transition -- Part Two: The Transition Begins, 1944-48 -- 4. Suffrage Restriction under Attack, 1944-47 -- 5. Driven from the House of Their Fathers. Southern Enclaves and the National Party, 1947-48 -- Part Three: The Clouds Darken, 1950-63 -- Prologue: "No Solution Offers Except Coercion". Brown, Massive Resistance, and Campus Crises, 1950-63 -- 6. "No Task for the Amateur or Hothead". Mississippi and the Battle of Oxford -- 7. "Integration with Dignity". South Carolina Navigates the Clemson Crisis -- 8. "No, Not One". Georgia's Massive Resistance and the Crisis at Athens -- Part Four: Modes of Democratization and Their Legacies since 1964 -- 9. The Deathblows to Authoritarian Rule. The Civil and Voting Rights Acts and National Party Reform, 1964-72 -- 10. Harnessing the Revolution? Three Paths Out of Dixie -- 11. Legacies and Lessons of the Democratized South -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter
Sommario/riassunto: The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II. It has re-sorted voters into parties, remapped presidential elections, and helped polarize Congress. Most important, it is the final step in America's democratization. Paths Out of Dixie illuminates this sea change by analyzing the democratization experiences of Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Robert Mickey argues that Southern states, from the 1890's until the early 1970's, constituted pockets of authoritarian rule trapped within and sustained by a federal democracy. These enclaves--devoted to cheap agricultural labor and white supremacy--were established by conservative Democrats to protect their careers and clients. From the abolition of the whites-only Democratic primary in 1944 until the national party reforms of the early 1970's, enclaves were battered and destroyed by a series of democratization pressures from inside and outside their borders. Drawing on archival research, Mickey traces how Deep South rulers--dissimilar in their internal conflict and political institutions--varied in their responses to these challenges. Ultimately, enclaves differed in their degree of violence, incorporation of African Americans, and reconciliation of Democrats with the national party. These diverse paths generated political and economic legacies that continue to reverberate today. Focusing on enclave rulers, their governance challenges, and the monumental achievements of their adversaries, Paths Out of Dixie shows how the struggles of the recent past have reshaped the South and, in so doing, America's political development.
Titolo autorizzato: Paths out of Dixie  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-691-14963-1
1-4008-3878-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826469703321
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Serie: Princeton studies in American politics.