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

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages) Contents 1. Introduction: Becoming Economic Problem No. 1; 2. "Wild Cards and Innovations, "; 3. The Wages of Dixie; 4. "Bulldozers on the Old Plantation, "; 5. Persistent Whiggery: Federal Entitlements and Southern Politics; 6. Missiles and Magnolias; 7. "Shadows on the Sunbelt, "; 8. Conclusion: Place Over People; Essay on Selected Sources; Notes; Index Summary 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 conservativism, 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 we Analysis Economic assistance, Domestic Southern States - Economic policy Notes Print version record Subject Economic assistance, Domestic -- Southern States Economic assistance, Domestic Economic history Economic policy Politics and government Race relations SUBJECT Southern States -- Economic policy Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 1918- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125641 Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125658 Southern States -- Race relations Subject Southern States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781601297242 1601297246 9780195363449 0195363442

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