Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Rutgers University.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.
Contents
Challenging the laws of nature : the New Deal and southern politics -- Drawing the color line : World II, race, and the South's political crucible -- Out of the bag? : the search for southern unity -- Setting the postwar agenda : civil rights, states' rights, and the tale of two conventions -- The Dixiecrat presidential campaign -- The cause lost : the decline of the Dixiecrat movement, 1949-1950 -- Cut free from the moorings : presidential politics in the South in the 1950s and 1960s.
