In the 1880's, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty that engulfed the postbellum South. In the long run, howev

In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty that engulfed the postbellum South. In the long run, howeve

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In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as thei