Cobb, Too Busy To Hate

What is Cobb's argument about the relationship between race and economic development?

How do northern industries react to segregation in the south? Examples? How do they react to the various crises around school desegregation?

What do southern industrial development leaders come to realize about the relationship between segregation and economic development?

What cities handled desegregation well, according to Cobb. Which ones did not do as well? What were the repercussions?

How would you judge Birmingham's and New Orleans's leadership during their crises?

How did different state governors balance the demands of economic development and segregation or desegregation?

Does Cobb really think businessmen made a difference in promoting desegregation, and why?

Lassiter, Suburbanization of Southern Politics

What is Lassiter's argument about race and economics?

How did Nixon take advantage of the three-way split in the 1968 election?

What group of voters in the South did Nixon target? Why?

What part of the South did political strategists feel would be most receptive to Republican overtures, and why?

What did the 1968 election results show in the South? How was the South divided?

What lesson did political analysts try to derive from the 1968 election?

After Nixon became president, how did his administration deal with school desegregation?
Why did they take this position?

What were the two strategies in the south to forestall school desegreagation in the south? How did the urban south and deep south differ?

What strategy did the Republicans adopt for the 1970 elections, and what was the result?