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The Dixiecrat revolt and the end of the Solid South, 1932-1968 / Kari Frederickson.

Title: The Dixiecrat revolt and the end of the Solid South, 1932-1968 / Kari Frederickson.
Author: Frederickson, Kari A.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.

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x, 311 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Examines the origins of the Dixiecrat movement of the 1930s and 1940s, analyzing the movement's influence in Southern politics as it severed ties with the Democratic Party and facilitated the rise of the Republican Party.

Alternative Title

Dixiecrat revolt & the end of the solid South, 1932-1968

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Note

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Rutgers University.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Challenging the laws of nature: the New Deal and southern politics -- Drawing the color line: World II, race, and the South's political crucible -- Out of the bag?: the search for southern unity -- Setting the postwar agenda: civil rights, states' rights, and the tale of two conventions -- The Dixiecrat presidential campaign -- The cause lost: the decline of the Dixiecrat movement, 1949-1950 -- Cut free from the moorings: presidential politics in the South in the 1950s and 1960s.

ISBN

0807825948 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807849103 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00044733^

OCLC

44426836

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Harvard Library