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Loading... In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (2007)by Joseph Crespino
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 4696. In Search of Another Country Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution, by Joseph Crespino (read 15 Apr 2010) This is a thoughtful study of white Mississippi's reaction to Brown v. Board of Education, ranging from massive resistance to today's at least lip-service acceptance, but concentrating on the time from 1964 to 1980. The early chapters tend to be somewhat dull, but the book is well-done and the final chapter is insightful and semi-encouraging. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Mississippians, however, had a different vision of themselves and their country, one so persuasive that by 1980 they had become important players in Ronald Reagan's newly ascendant Republican Party. In this ambitious reassessment of racial politics in the deep South, Joseph Crespino reveals how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement. Crespino explains how white Mississippians linked their fight to preserve Jim Crow with other conservative causes--with evangelical Christians worried about liberalism infecting their churches, with cold warriors concerned about the Communist threat, and with parents worried about where and with whom their children were schooled. Crespino reveals important divisions among Mississippi whites, offering the most nuanced portrayal yet of how conservative southerners bridged the gap between the politics of Jim Crow and that of the modern Republican South. This book lends new insight into how white Mississippians gave rise to a broad, popular reaction against modern liberalism that recast American politics in the closing decades of the twentieth century. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)976.2063History and Geography North America South Central U.S. MississippiLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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