From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism



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English | June 17, 2008 | ISBN: 0300121830, 0300151233 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 1.9 MB

A compelling account of the rise of the modern right in America

The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region’s transition from cratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems from a 1960s-era backlash against left-leaning social movements. But as Joseph Lowndes argues in this book, this rightward shift was not necessarily a natural response by alienated whites, but rather the result of the long-term development of an alliance between Southern segregationists and Northern conservatives, two groups who initially shared little beyond opposition to specific New Deal imperatives.