TY - BOOK AU - Feldman,Glenn ED - Project Muse. TI - The irony of the solid south: Democrats, Republicans, and race, 1865-1944 SN - 9780817386702 AV - F215 .F43 2013 U1 - 975/.04 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - The University of Alabama Press KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Democratic Party (U.S.) KW - Southern States KW - Race relations KW - Politics and government KW - 1865-1950 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The "Reconstruction syndrome" and the calcification of conservative culture -- Elements of Democratic solidarity and discontent: industry, economics, Calvinist religion, and Jim Crow -- For Blacks only: the perversion of Alabama progressivism -- Race over rum, romans, and Republicans -- Placing culture on hold: the New Deal coalition, its first cracks, and the "great melding" takes shape -- Splitting the New Deal coalition open -- The "liberal south" and the central tragedy of southern politics -- Cheap labor, the FEPC, and Frank Dixon as knight-errant of the South -- Racial challenge, white reaction, and Chauncey Sparks as the new champion -- Race, religion, and the "status quo society" -- Liberals, friends of the Negro, and charging hell with a toothpick -- Epilogue: since 1944 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817386702/ ER -