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Nation within a Nation

Name: Nation within a Nation
Author: Glenn Feldman
ISBN: 9780813064482

The American South and the Federal Government

Edited by Glenn Feldman

Published by: University Press of Florida

Nation within a Nation features cutting-edge work by lead scholars in the fields of history, political science, and human geography, who examine the causes—real and perceived—for the South’s perpetual state of rebellion, which remains one of its most defining characteristics.

366 Pages6.13 × 9.2516 tables, 3 graphs

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From the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the South has exerted an outsized influence on American government and history, while being distinctly anti-government. It continues to do so today with Tea Party politics. Southern states have profited immensely from federal projects, tax expenditures, and public spending, yet the region’s relationship with the central government and the courts can, at the best of times, be described as contentious.

Glenn Feldman (1962–2015) was professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Painting Dixie Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican and Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South.

“Original, illuminating, and provocative, Nation within a Nation is certain to challenge those who deny southern exceptionalism. These essays show the complexity, hypocrisy, and, yes, perversion in this tortured relationship.”—Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln
“Feldman has put together an impressive array of scholars who intelligently analyze the peculiar, somewhat dysfunctional, somewhat hypocritical relationship of the South to the federal government.”—Ralph Young, author of Dissent in America: The Voices That Shaped a Nation
“Documents the many complex nuances that make the relationship between the South and the federal government such a compelling story. Writing against the historiographical grain, collectively these essays support the idea of southern distinctiveness, a distinctiveness born out of persistent resentment to all things emanating from Washington.”—Kari Frederickson, coeditor of Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida

“The chapters—individually and collectively—make a powerful case for southern distinctiveness and illustrate the southernization of the relationship between non-southern states and the federal government.”—Journal of American Studies
“The book is an interesting read for those concerned with the history of the South, but also for those interested in how newer issues such as the US-Mexican border and criminal justice policies fit within the region’s history.”—New Books in Political Science
“Genuinely transnational in scope. … Make[s] significant contributions to our understanding of the relationship between the South and the federal government.”—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Glenn Feldman

Part I. Past to Present

Chapter 1. First to Secede, Last to Accede: South Carolina’s Resistance to the Republic, 1780–Present
Thomas F. Schaller

Part II. Race, War, and Culture

Chapter 2. Tom Watson and Resistance to Federal War Policies in Georgia during World War I
Zachary C. Smith

Chapter 3. “Negroes, the New Deal, and … Karl Marx”: Southern Antistatism in Depression and War
Jason Morgan Ward

Chapter 4. Dixiecrats, Dissenting Delegates, and the Dying Democratic Party: Mississippi’s Right Turn from Roosevelt to Johnson
Rebecca Miller Davis

Chapter 5. Right Turn? The Republican Party and African American Politics in Post-1965 Mississippi
Chris Danielson

Part III. A Nation within a Nation?

Chapter 6. Texas Philosophy, Nashville Agrarianism, Reagan Republicanism, and the Neo-Confederacy: The Influence of M. E. Bradford
Fred Arthur Bailey

Chapter 7. The Evil Empire Within: Southern Nationalism and the Washington Problem
David R. Jansson

Part IV. Economic Development and Reform

Chapter 8. Getting Farmers—and Tourists—”Out of the Mud”: Alabama’s Nineteenth-Century Experience with Public Projects and Its Response to the Federal Road Aid Acts of 1916 and 1921
Martin T. Olliff

Chapter 9. “From Nothin’ to Somethin’”: The Tennessee Valley Authority and Federal-Local Cooperation in the Sun Belt South, 1940–1960
Matthew L. Downs

Chapter 10. Lighting the “Dark and Evil World”: Judge J. Smith Henley, Arkansas, and the Federal Judiciary’s Reform of the Southern Prison
Gregory L. Richard

Part V. Tax Fury and the Tea Party

Chapter 11. The Tea Party in the South: Populism Revisited?
Allan B. McBride

Chapter 12. Deal or No Deal: Taxes, Government Spending, and Alabamians Having Their Cake and Eating It Too
Natalie Motise Davis

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