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"From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt marks a breakthrough in social and political analysis, showing for the first time how the interconnection between national and regional politics, on the one hand, and government policy, on the other, brought about the transformation of the social economy of the South from the days of the New Deal to the 1980s. Moreover, it is written with verve and clarity and from a wealth of governmental and manuscript sources. All that is hard to beat."—Carl Degler, Stanford University

Table of Contents
Preface to the Duke Edition vii
Preface xi
1. Introduction: Becoming Economic Problem No. 1 5
2. "Wild Cards and Innovations" 39
3. The Wages of Dixie 63
4. "Bulldozers on the Old Plantation" 88
5. Persistent Whiggery: Federal Entitlements and Southern Politics 112
6. Missiles and Magnolias 135
7. "Shadows on the Sunbelt" 174
8. Conclusion: Place Over People 206
Essay on Selected Sources 222
Notes 232
Index 323

From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 9 November 1994
      ISBN-13 9780822315377
      978-0822315377
      ISBN-10 0822315378
      Also in:
      Development economics

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt marks a breakthrough in social and political analysis, showing for the first time how the interconnection between national and regional politics, on the one hand, and government policy, on the other, brought about the transformation of the social economy of the South from the days of the New Deal to the 1980s. Moreover, it is written with verve and clarity and from a wealth of governmental and manuscript sources. All that is hard to beat."—Carl Degler, Stanford University

      Table of Contents
      Preface to the Duke Edition vii
      Preface xi
      1. Introduction: Becoming Economic Problem No. 1 5
      2. "Wild Cards and Innovations" 39
      3. The Wages of Dixie 63
      4. "Bulldozers on the Old Plantation" 88
      5. Persistent Whiggery: Federal Entitlements and Southern Politics 112
      6. Missiles and Magnolias 135
      7. "Shadows on the Sunbelt" 174
      8. Conclusion: Place Over People 206
      Essay on Selected Sources 222
      Notes 232
      Index 323

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