Paths Out of Dixie

List of Illustrations and Tables ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Part One: Deep South Enclaves, 1890-1940 1

CHAPTER ONE Southern Political Development in Comparative Perspective 3

CHAPTER TWO The Founding and Maintenance of Southern Enclaves, 1890-1940 33

CHAPTER THREE Deep South Enclaves on the Eve of the Transition 64

Part Two: The Transition Begins, 1944-48 93

CHAPTER FOUR Suffrage Restriction under Attack, 1944-47 95

CHAPTER FIVE Driven from the House of Their Fathers

Southern Enclaves and the National Party, 1947-48 131

Part Three: The Clouds Darken, 1950-63 171

PROLOGUE "No Solution Offers Except Coercion"

Brown, Massive Resistance, and Campus Crises, 1950-63 173

CHAPTER SIX "No Task for the Amateur or Hothead"

Mississippi and the Battle of Oxford 190

CHAPTER SEVEN "Integration with Dignity"

South Carolina Navigates the Clemson Crisis 215

CHAPTER EIGHT "No, Not One"

Georgia's Massive Resistance and the Crisis at Athens 240

Part Four: Modes of Democratization and Their Legacies since 1964 257

CHAPTER NINE The Deathblows to Authoritarian Rule

The Civil and Voting Rights Acts and National Party Reform, 1964-72 259

CHAPTER TEN Harnessing the Revolution? Three Paths Out of Dixie 281

CHAPTER ELEVEN Legacies and Lessons of the Democratized South 335

Notes 355

Index 531