Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government

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Index Abortion, 21, 316, 320. See also Roe v. Wade Adams, John Quincy, 27; and “Corrupt Bargain,” 59n10 Affordable Care Act, 320–23 Agriculture. See Cotton; Farmers Alabama, 10–12, 120n29; and the 1960 election, 146n41; and the 1964 election, 148n52; benefits from federal government and, 325–41; and the Dixiecrat Revolt, 128, 129, 144n23; economic development in, 261–86; immigration to, 219–20; last state to abolish convict lease, 61n34; Latinos in, 219–20; meeting in Tuscaloosa, 207; military installations in, 229; opposition to military draft in, 86, 87; road and highway construction in, 229–60; taxes and, 325–41. See also Birmingham; Bradford, Melvin E.; Collins, Charles Wallace; Graves, John Temple; Wallace, George C. Allain, Bill, 163 American Revolution, 24–25. See also Tories Anti-Catholicism, 4, 21, 69 Anti-Semitism, 4, 69, 74, 77; and Tom Watson, 94n3. See also Frank, Leo; Weinberger, Harry Arizona, 220; and the 1964 election, 148n52 Arkansas, 12–13, 287–300, 328; and desegregation , 33; opposition to military draft in, 86, 87; penal reform in, 287–300. See also Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Little Rock Arminianism, 14 Atwater, H. Lee, 8, 21 Auburn University, 245 Austrian School, 2 Bachmann, Michele, 318, 326 Bailey, Fred Arthur, 9 Bailey, Josiah, 104 Ball, William Watts, 109–10, 113 Bankhead, John Hollis, 241 Barbour, Haley, 149 Barnes, Roy, 50 Barnett, Ross, 7, 133–36, 150; and Mississippi GOP, 153 Barnwell, John, 30 Bass, Jack, 173nn17,19 Beasley, David, 21; and decision to remove Confederate Battle Flag, 49–50 Beccaria, Cesare, 288–89 Beck, Glenn, 318 Bilbo, Theodore, 123 Bill of Rights, 26, 59n8 Birmingham, 86 Black, Earl, 150, 304, 321 Black, Merle, 150, 304, 321 Black Codes, 2 Blease, Cole, 36–37, 39, 53, 58 Bledsoe, Oscar, 111 Bob Jones University, 4, 21, 217 Bradford, Melvin E., 9, 181–204; and 346 · Index admiration for George Wallace, 9, 186–87; admired by Ronald Reagan, 9, 187–89, 201n20; attacks Martin Luther King, 195; and attacks on Abraham Lincoln , 9, 183, 185–86, 194–96; and attacks on egalitarianism, 9, 181–82, 193–95, 198–99; on the Declaration of Independence , 186; defense of aristocracy, 193–94; defense of extremism, 181–82; and defense of slavery, 9, 192–93; and nomination to NEH, 187–89; praise for the Klan, 197–98; racism of, 182, 192, 195; and “Reconstruction Theology ,” 189–92; ties to Neo-Confederacy, 196–99. See also Nashville Agrarians; Vanderbilt University Brannon, Hazel, 125, 133, 136 Briggs v. Elliott, 42 British aristocracy, 193–94 British East India Company, 3 British Parliament, 3 Brooks, Preston, 20, 53 Brown, J. J., 80–81, 98n50 Brown v. Board of Education, 4, 131, 140; and South Carolina, 21, 42–43 Burke, Edmund, 3, 15n2 Burleson, Albert Sydney, 89 Burt, Armistead: and refuge for Jeff Davis, 57 Burton, Orville Vernon, 15n1 Bush, George H. W., 21 Bush, George W., 49, 310–11, 319; and smearing of John McCain in South Carolina, 52 Business, 2; and pro-business climate, 2 Byrd, Harry F., 45, 120n29 Byrnes, James F. “Jimmy,” 38, 39, 105; and reaction to Brown v. Board, 42; turns on New Deal, 116 Calhoun, John C., 1, 4–5, 44, 53, 58; and “nullification,” 20, 27–30; and slavery, 30–31 Calvinism, 14, 119n16; and the “deservedness ” of aid recipients, 14, 314, 317; ties to race, 109–10, 113, 114. See also Business; Capitalism; “Profitarianism”; Religion Capitalism, 4, 119n16; alleged suspicion of market values, 14; anti-capitalism in Georgia, 67–101; free markets and, 308–9, 315, 319; hostility toward New Deal, 102–21; racialized versions of, 6; suspicion toward, 4, 14; unfettered, 151 Carmichael, Gil, 8, 153–64, 171, 173n17 Carpetbaggers, 5, 6 Carter, Dan T., 163 Carter, Hodding, Jr., 129, 135, 138 Carter, Hodding, III, 138–39 Carter, Jimmy, 48–49, 140n1, 164 Cash, W. J., 9; and “nation within a nation ,” 9 Catholics, 4. See also Anti-Catholicism Chicago School, 2 Citizens Councils. See White Citizens’ Councils Civil rights, 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 117, 185, 193; and alienation of white South, 46, 122; and Mississippi, 126–30. See also Bradford, Melvin E.; Civil Rights Act of 1964; Democratic Party; Dixiecrat Revolt; New Deal; Republican Party; States’ Rights; Voting Rights Act of 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 6, 7, 8; and alienation of white Democrats, 46. See also Johnson, Lyndon; Kennedy, John F. Civil War, 1, 11, 213, 290–91, 318, 325; and prisons, 290–91; romanticized, 183–85; and South Carolina, 20, 30–32, 57–58...