Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the
communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book
explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold
War-era South. The SRP, a scientific and industrial complex near
Aiken, South Carolina, grew out of a 1950 partnership between the
Atomic Energy Commission and the DuPont Corporation and was
dedicated to producing materials for the hydrogen bomb. Kari
Frederickson shows how the needs of the expanding national security
state, in combination with the corporate culture of DuPont,
transformed the economy, landscape, social relations, and politics
of this corner of the South. In 1950, the area comprising the SRP
and its surrounding communities was primarily poor, uneducated,
rural, and staunchly Democratic; by the mid-1960s, it boasted the
most PhDs per capita in the state and had become increasingly
middle class, suburban, and Republican.
The SRP's story is notably dramatic; however, Frederickson argues,
it is far from unique. The influx of new money, new workers, and
new business practices stemming from Cold War-era federal
initiatives helped drive the emergence of the Sunbelt. These
factors also shaped local race relations. In the case of the SRP,
DuPont's deeply conservative ethos blunted opportunities for social
change, but it also helped contain the radical white backlash that
was so prominent in places like the Mississippi Delta that received
less Cold War investment.
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