In search of another country : Mississippi and the conservative counterrevolution
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2007
History
xvii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780691122090, 9780691140940, 0691122091, 0691140944
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List of Illustrations and Tables ix Abbreviations xiii Acknowledgments xv INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: Practical Segregation 18 CHAPTER TWO: The Limits of Resistance 49 CHAPTER THREE: "The Heartland of Conservative America" 75 CHAPTER FOUR: Racial Troubleshooting 108 CHAPTER FIVE: The Ambivalence of White Christians 144 CHAPTER SIX: The Irony of School Desegregation 173 CHAPTER SEVEN: Southern Strategies in Mississippi 205 CHAPTER EIGHT: Mississippi Kulturkampf 237 CONCLUSION 267 Notes 279 Index 343