From the New Deal to the New Right Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism

Name: From the New Deal to the New Right Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism
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ISBN: 9780300151237

ISBN-10: 0300151233

ISBN-13: 9780300151237

Edition: 2009

Authors: Joseph E. Lowndes

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The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region's transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems from a 1960s-era backlash against left-leaning social movements. But as Joseph Lowndes argues in this book, this rightward shift was not necessarily a natural response by alienated whites, but rather the result of the long-term development of an alliance between Southern segregationists and Northern conservatives, two groups who initially shared little beyond opposition to specific New Deal…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 6/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.660



Acknowledgments



Beyond the Backlash Thesis



"White Supremacy Is a Political Doctrine": Charles Wallace Collins and the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948



"Goldwater Was the Horsepower": National Review and the New Southern GOP



"You Are Southerners Too": The National Campaigns of George Wallace



"The South, the West, and Suburbia": Richard Nixon's New Majority



"Guv'mints Lie": Asa Carter, Josey Wales, and the Southernization of Conservatism After Watergate



Between Political Order and Change: The Contingent Construction of the Modern Right


Notes


Bibliography


Index