Nearly one hundred thousand newly enfranchised blacks voted against
race-baiting Eugene Talmadge in Georgia's 1946 Democratic primary.
His opponent won the popular vote by a majority of sixteen
thousand. Talmadge was elected anyway, thanks to the
malapportioning county unit system, but died before he could be
inaugurated, whereupon the General Assembly chose his son Herman to
take his place. For the next sixty-three days, Georgia waited in
shock for the state supreme court to decide whether Herman or the
lieutenant governor-elect would be seated. What had happened to so
suddenly reverse four years of progressive reform under retiring
governor Ellis Arnall? To find out, Calvin Kytle and James A.
Mackay sat through the tumultuous 1947 assembly, then toured
Georgia's 159 counties asking politicians, public officials,
editors, businessmen, farmers, factory workers, civic leaders,
lobbyists, academicians, and preachers the question "Who runs
Georgia?" Among those interviewed were editor Ralph McGill,
novelist Lillian Smith, defeated gubernatorial candidate James V.
Carmichael, powerbroker Roy Harris, pollwatcher Ira Butt, and more
than a hundred others--men and women, black and white, heroes and
rogues--of all stripes and stations. The result, as Dan T. Carter
says in his foreword, captures "the substance and texture of
political life in the American South" during an era that historians
have heretofore neglected--those years of tension between the end
of the New Deal and the explosive start of the civil rights
movement. What's more, Who Runs Georgia? has much to tell us about
campaign finance and the political influence of Big Money, as
relevant for the nation today as it was then for the state.
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