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 […]
Kari Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt, chapter 5, The Dixiecrat Presidential Campaign These may be helpful in the reading for Wednesday and Friday. We pick up in this chapter just after Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright have received the States Rights Democratic nomination for president and VP. This chapter focuses on their campaign, on the […]
Roger Biles, The South and the New Deal, Chapter 7 – Southern Politics What was Franklin Roosevelt's relationship with the South? What about his background made him think he understood the South? How did the South help him get the Democratic nomination in 1932 and win the election? Why did the […]
Welcome to the 22 of you who registered for this year's edition of Southern Politics. Today I want to talk about why you wanted to take this class.