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The Southernization of America - A Story of Democracy in the Balance (Hardcover)
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The Southernization of America - A Story of Democracy in the Balance (Hardcover)
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye
Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the
South in America’s long descent into Trumpism. In 1974 the great
Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The
Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America,
reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more
like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard
dive even deeper into that reality from the time that Egerton
published his book until the present. They see the dark side—the
morphing of the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon and Ronald
Reagan into the Republican Party of today with its thinly disguised
(if indeed it is disguised all all) embrace of white supremacy and
the subversion of democratic ideals. They explore the "birtherism"
of Donald Trump and the roots of the racial backlash against
President Obama; the specter of family separation on our southern
border, with its echoes of similar separations in the era of
slavery; as well as the rise of the Christian right, the
demonstrations in Charlottesville, the death of George Floyd, and
the attack on our nation’s capital—all of which, they argue,
have roots that trace their way to the South. But Tucker and
Gaillard see another side too, a legacy rooted in the civil rights
years that has given us political leaders like John Lewis, Jimmy
Carter, Raphael Warnock, and Stacy Abrams. The authors raise the
ironic possibility that the South, regarded by some as the heart of
the country’s systemic racism, might lead the way on the path to
redemption. Tucker and Gaillard, colleagues and frequent
collaborators at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, bring a
multi-racial perspective and years of political reporting to bear
on a critical moment in American history, a time of racial
reckoning and of democracy under siege.
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