I taught the Dixiecrats and their aftermath in my seminar on the political history of civil rights today.
Kari Frederickson’s great book was the main text but I also assigned my southern strategy chapter from Myth America.
That led to the Prager U video and then the D’Souza experience too. Fun!
Kari Frederickson’s great book was the main text but I also assigned my southern strategy chapter from Myth America.
That led to the Prager U video and then the D’Souza experience too. Fun!
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Do I want to know?
No mention of the history gerrymandering… wonder why?!?
Did poll taxing never happen either?
Disingenuous claptrap.
Used to be on faculty at Princeton! The students were floored
I had thought people said the parties reversed when they really meant just both parties today would be unrecognizable to either back then
Yes, I actually learned something on Twitter and changed my mind 😆
Looking for some “history I wasn’t taught in school” resources. Perfectly timed, thank you!
Yet D’Souza believers will fight me about it. I was there!!
I wasn’t taught hate.
It’s been a while but McGerr’s Fierce Discontent holds up, I think?
I bet @rauchway.bsky.social has better ideas here
Words collide and then they move apart.
The other day I remembered “Thigh-land”