From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938-1980

Name: From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938-1980
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ISBN: 9780822315377

ISBN-10: 0822315378

ISBN-13: 9780822315377

Edition: 1994

Authors: Bruce J. Schulman

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This is a carefully executed study of the effects of federal economic policy in transforming the American South from the time of the New Deal to the present. Decrying the South's economic backwardness and political conservatism, the Roosevelt Administration launched a series of aggressive programs to reorder the Southern economy. A generation of young liberal Southerners entered the national government to preside over these policies. After 1950, however, Keynesianism replaced New Deal reform as the mainstay of national economic policy, and the national security state supplanted the social welfare state as the South's principal benefactor. Schulman here contrasts the diminished role of…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/9/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Bruce Schulman is Professor of History at Boston University.



Preface to the Duke Edition


Preface



Introduction: Becoming Economic Problem No. 1



"Wild Cards and Innovations"



The Wages of Dixie



"Bulldozers on the Old Plantation"



Persistent Whiggery: Federal Entitlements and Southern Politics



Missiles and Magnolias



"Shadows on the Sunbelt"



Conclusion: Place Over People


Essay on Selected Sources


Notes


Index