Nation within a Nation (eBook)

The American South and the Federal Government

Glenn Feldman (Herausgeber)

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2019
366 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
9780813065298 (ISBN)

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From the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the South has exerted an outsized influence on American government and history while being distinctly anti-government. It continues to do so today with Tea Party politics. Southern states have profited immensely from federal projects, tax expenditures, and public spending, yet the region's relationship with the central government and the courts can, at the best of times, be described as contentious. Nation within a Nation features cutting-edge work by lead scholars in the fields of history, political science, and human geography, who examine the causes—real and perceived—for the South's perpetual state of rebellion, which remains one of its most defining characteristics.

Autor

Glenn Feldman (1962–2015) was professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Painting Dixie Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican and Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South.

Inhalt

Content

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Glenn Feldman

Part I. Past to Present

1. First to Secede, Last to Accede: South Carolina’s Resistance to the Republic, 1780–Present 19

Thomas F. Schaller

Part II. Race, War, and Culture

2. Tom Watson and Resistance to Federal War Policies in Georgia during World War I 67

Zachary C. Smith

3. “Negroes, the New Deal, and . . . Karl Marx”: Southern Antistatism in Depression and War 102

Jason Morgan Ward

4. Dixiecrats, Dissenting Delegates, and the Dying Democratic Party: Mississippi’s Right Turn from Roosevelt to Johnson 122

Rebecca Miller Davis

5. Right Turn? The Republican Party and African American Politics in Post-1965 Mississippi 149

Chris Danielson

Part III. A Nation within a Nation?

6. Texas Philosophy, Nashville Agrarianism, Reagan Republicanism, and the Neo-Confederacy: The Influence of M. E. Bradford 181

Fred Arthur Bailey

7. The Evil Empire Within: Southern Nationalism and the Washington Problem 205

David R. Jansson

Part IV. Economic Development and Reform

8. Getting Farmers—and Tourists—“Out of the Mud”: Alabama’s Nineteenth-Century Experience with Public Projects and Its Response to the Federal Road Aid Acts of 1916 and 1921 229

Martin T. Olliff

9. “From Nothin’ to Somethin’”: The Tennessee Valley Authority and Federal-Local Cooperation in the Sun Belt South, 1940–1960 261

Matthew L. Downs

10. Lighting the “Dark and Evil World”: Judge J. Smith Henley, Arkansas, and the Federal Judiciary’s Reform of the Southern Prison 287

Gregory L. Richard

Part V. Tax Fury and the Tea Party

11. The Tea Party in the South: Populism Revisited? 303

Allan B. McBride

12. Deal or No Deal: Taxes, Government Spending, and Alabamians Having Their Cake and Eating It Too 325

Natalie Motise Davis

List of Contributors 343

Index 345

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: American Government • American South • anti-government • Civil Rights Movement • Civil War • Constitutional Convention • Political Science • Rebellion • Southern States • tea party politics
• ISBN-13: 9780813065298 / 9780813065298