The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance
by Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
In 1974 John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie. Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard carry Egerton’s thesis forward in The Southernization of America,
a compelling series of linked essays considering the role of the South
in shaping America’s current political and cultural landscape. They dive
deeper, examining the morphing of the Southern strategy of Richard
Nixon and Ronald Reagan into the Republican Party of today, the racial
backlash against President Obama, family separation on our southern
border, the rise of the Christian right, the white supremacist riots in
Charlottesville, the death of George Floyd, and the attack on our
nation’s capitol. They find hope in the South too, a legacy rooted in
the civil rights years that might ultimately lead the nation on the path
to redemption. Tucker and Gaillard bring a multiracial perspective and
years of political reporting to bear on a critical moment in American
history, a time of racial reckoning and democracy under siege.
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