Southern Nation : Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction

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Label

Southern Nation : Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction

Title remainder

Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction

Statement of responsibility

David A. Bateman, Ira Katznelson, John S. Lapinski

Creator

• Bateman, David A., (David Alexander)

Contributor

• Katznelson, Ira
• Lapinski, John S., 1967-
• Bateman, David A.

Author

• Bateman, David A., (David Alexander)
• Lapinski, John S., 1967-
• Katznelson, Ira

Donor

• Lapinski, John S., 1967-
• Bateman, David A.
• Katznelson, Ira

Subject

• United States
• United States, Congress
• White supremacy movements -- Southern States -- History
• Legislators
• Political culture -- Southern States
• Southern States
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Politics and government
• Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
• Southern States -- Race relations

Language

eng

Summary

How did southern members of Congress remake 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

Member of

• Princeton studies in American politics

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

975/.041

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

F216

LC item number

.B38 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Princeton studies in American politics : Historical, International, and comparative perspectives