In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative CounterrevolutionPrinceton University Press, 2007 - 360 páginas In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Mississippians, however, had a different vision of themselves and their country, one so persuasive that by 1980 they had become important players in Ronald Reagan's newly ascendant Republican Party. In this ambitious reassessment of racial politics in the deep South, Joseph Crespino reveals how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement. Crespino explains how white Mississippians linked their fight to preserve Jim Crow with other conservative causes--with evangelical Christians worried about liberalism infecting their churches, with cold warriors concerned about the Communist threat, and with parents worried about where and with whom their children were schooled. Crespino reveals important divisions among Mississippi whites, offering the most nuanced portrayal yet of how conservative southerners bridged the gap between the politics of Jim Crow and that of the modern Republican South. This book lends new insight into how white Mississippians gave rise to a broad, popular reaction against modern liberalism that recast American politics in the closing decades of the twentieth century. |
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... liberal consensus in his searing ballad " Here's to the State of Mississippi . " The verses , framed around a rhymed quatrain , paid sarcastic tribute to the state . Each ended with a damning couplet and the same ringing refrain ...
... liberal social policies that allowed for black advancement in ways that would come to resonate with white Americans ... liberalism " infecting " Protestant churches ; and with parents op- posed to federal school desegregation efforts ...
... liberal university administrators with the plight of Mississippi blacks . Mississippi was not a closed society ; it was America writ small . 10 The irony for many Americans whose political consciousness was formed in the 1960s was that ...
... liberal theology that was corrupting the mission of the church and threatening traditional practices in their communities and churches . White Christians in Mississippi responded to the racial and religious demands of black Christians ...
... liberal theology that white Mississippians believed overemphasized social regeneration at the expense of individual salvation . They deeply resented liberal Protestant ministers who headed national church bodies that issued ...
Contenido
Practical Segregation | 18 |
The Limits of Resistance | 49 |
The Heartland of Conservative America | 75 |
Racial Troubleshooting | 108 |
The Ambivalence of White Christians | 144 |
The Irony of School Desegregation | 173 |
Southern Strategies in Mississippi | 205 |
Mississippi Kulturkampf | 237 |
CONCLUSION | 267 |
Notes | 279 |
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In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution Joseph Crespino Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution Joseph Crespino Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
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