Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The "Reconstruction Syndrome" and the Calcification of Conservative Culture
2. Elements of Democratic Solidarity and Discontent: Industry, Economics, Calvinist Religion, and Jim Crow
3. For Blacks Only: The Perversion of Alabama Progressivism
4. Race over Rum, Romans, and Republicans
5. Placing Culture on Hold: The New Deal Coalition, Its First Cracks, and the "Great Melding" Takes Shape
6. Splitting the New Deal Coalition Open
7. The "Liberal South" and the Central Tragedy of Southern Politics
8. Cheap Labor, the FEPC, and Frank Dixon as Knight-Errant of the South
9. Racial Challenge, White Reaction, and Chauncey Sparks as the New Champion
10. Race, Religion, and the "Status Quo Society"
11. Liberals, Friends of the Negro, and Charging Hell with a Toothpick
Epilogue: Since 1944
Notes
Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources
Index