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Notes Introduction Epigraph source: Anne Braden, House Un-American Activities Committee: Bulwark of Segregation (Los Angeles: National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1963), 37. 1. Michael Paterniti, “How Florida Became America,” New York Times Magazine, April 21, 2002. 2. Washington Post, May 31, 2001. 3. Gainesville Sun, July 1, 1993; St. Petersburg Times, January 3, 1993; Daytona Beach News-Journal, July 1, 1993; and Gainesville Sun, July 6, 1993. 4. Gary R. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005). 5. Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development , and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994), chap. 5; V. O. Key Jr., Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 83. 6. See Jeff Woods, Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948–1968 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004). 7. K. A. Cuordileone, Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (New York: Routledge, 2005), 40. 8. Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), 66. 9. Numan V. Bartley, The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950s (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969); Francis M. Wilhoit , The Politics of Massive Resistance (New York: George Braziller, 1973); Neil R. McMillen , The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954–1964 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971); Robert Sherrill, Gothic Politics in the Deep South: Stars of the New Confederacy (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968); James W. Ely Jr., The Crisis of Conservative Virginia: The Byrd Organization and the Politics of Massive Resistance (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976); and Earl Black, Southern Governors and Civil Rights: Racial Segregation as a Campaign Issue in the Second Reconstruction (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976). 10. Numan V. Bartley, The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950s, 2nd ed. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997), 339. 11. Alan Brinkley, “The Problem of American Conservatism,” Journal of American History, 99 no. 2 (April 1994): 409–29; John A. Andrew III, The Other Side of the Sixties : Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997); and Mary C. Brennan, Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995). 12. Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism , and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 12. 13. Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Southern Conservatism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 10–11. 14. Joseph H. Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), 4. 15. Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), 3. 16. Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000); and Brenda Gayle Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). 17. Sarah Hart Brown, “Congressional Anti-Communism and the Segregationist South: From New Orleans to Atlanta, 1954–1958,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 80, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 788–90. See also Sarah Hart Brown, Standing Against Dragons: Three Southern Lawyers in an Era of Fear (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998). 18. Chris Myers Asch, The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer (New York: New Press, 2008); and William A. Link, Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008). 19. Yasuhiro Katagiri, The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States’ Rights (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001), 87. 20. M. J. Heale, McCarthy’s Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 1935– 1965 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998), 18–19, 25, 214. 21. Woods, Black Struggle, Red Scare, 5–6. 22. Ibid., 10–11. 23. George Lewis, Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 185. 24. George Lewis, The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism , and Massive Resistance, 1945–1965 (Gainesville: University...

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