Nation within a nation [electronic resource] : the American South and the federal government / edited by Glenn Feldman.

Includes index.

Introduction / Glenn Feldman -- Part I: Past to present: First to secede, last to accede: South Carolina's resistance to the Republic, 1780-present / Thomas F. Schaller -- Part II: Race, war, and culture: Tom watson and resistance to federal war policies in Georgia during World War I / Zachary C. Smith -- "Negroes, the New Deal, and . . . Karl Marx": Southern antistatism in depression and war / Jason Morgan Ward -- Dixiecrats, dissenting delegates, and the dying Democratic Party: Mississippi's right turn from Roosevelt to Johnson / Rebecca Miller Davis -- Right turn? the Republican Party and African American politics in post-1965 Mississippi / Chris Danielson -- Part III: A nation within a nation?: Texas philosophy, Nashville agrarianism, Reagan republicanism, and the Neo-Confederacy: the influence of M. E. Bradford / Fred Arthur Bailey -- The evil empire within: Southern nationalism and the Washington problem / David R. Jansson -- Part IV: Economic development and reform: Getting farmers? and tourists? "out of the mud": Alabama's nineteenth-century experience with public projects and its response to the Federal Road Aid Acts of 1916 and 1921 / Martin T. Olliff -- "From nothin? to somethin?": the Tennessee Valley Authority and federal-local cooperation in the Sun Belt South, 1940-1960 / Matthew L. Downs -- Lighting the "dark and evil world": Judge J. Smith Henley, Arkansas, and the federal judiciary's reform of the southern prison / Gregory L. Richard -- Part V: Tax fury and the tea party: The Tea Party in the South: populism revisited? / Allan B. McBride -- Deal or no deal: taxes, government spending, and Alabamians having their cake and eating it too / Natalie Motise Davis.

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