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Southern Nation - Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Southern Nation - Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
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How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their
own image after the Civil War No question has loomed larger in the
American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation
examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public
policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New
Deal-and along the way remade the region and the nation in their
own image. The central paradox of southern politics was how such a
highly diverse region could be transformed into a coherent and
unified bloc-a veritable nation within a nation that exercised
extraordinary influence in politics. This book shows how this
unlikely transformation occurred in Congress, the institutional
site where the South's representatives forged a new relationship
with the rest of the nation. Drawing on an innovative theory of
southern lawmaking, in-depth analyses of key historical sources,
and congressional data, Southern Nation traces how southern
legislators confronted the dilemma of needing federal investment
while opposing interference with the South's racial hierarchy, a
problem they navigated with mixed results before choosing to
prioritize white supremacy above all else. Southern Nation reveals
how southern members of Congress gradually won for themselves an
unparalleled role in policymaking, and left all southerners-whites
and blacks-disadvantaged to this day. At first, the successful
defense of the South's capacity to govern race relations left
southern political leaders locally empowered but marginalized
nationally. With changing rules in Congress, however, southern
representatives soon became strategically positioned to profoundly
influence national affairs.
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