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Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South (review)

Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the... Book Reviews The common thread throughout The White House Looks South is the South's relationship to the rest of the nation. In the epilogue, Leuchtenburg looks at recent political history and concludes that, despite all of the progress, the South still remains the nation's number one economic problem; we still stereotype southern whites as rednecks; and racism remains a concrete problem. Still, while Leuchtenburg sees the South as more a part of the nation than ever before, as one observer remarked, "southerners remain `markedly different from other Americans' because of `their sense of place'" (411), and it is this distinctiveness that we are bound to see arise in the next presidential race. To be sure, in the past two decades, a number of politicians have attempted to identify with this particular region as the southern vote appears now to be the most coveted. Most recently, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was lambasted in the press for speaking in southern dialect at a rally in Selma, Alabama, when everyone knows her "people are from Chicago." As Leuchtenburg states, "Southernness is more a decision than a fate" (26). If this early presidential contest is any indication, his assessment certainly seems to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies West Virginia University Press

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West Virginia University Press
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Copyright © 2008 West Virginia University Press
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1940-5057
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Book Reviews The common thread throughout The White House Looks South is the South's relationship to the rest of the nation. In the epilogue, Leuchtenburg looks at recent political history and concludes that, despite all of the progress, the South still remains the nation's number one economic problem; we still stereotype southern whites as rednecks; and racism remains a concrete problem. Still, while Leuchtenburg sees the South as more a part of the nation than ever before, as one observer remarked, "southerners remain `markedly different from other Americans' because of `their sense of place'" (411), and it is this distinctiveness that we are bound to see arise in the next presidential race. To be sure, in the past two decades, a number of politicians have attempted to identify with this particular region as the southern vote appears now to be the most coveted. Most recently, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was lambasted in the press for speaking in southern dialect at a rally in Selma, Alabama, when everyone knows her "people are from Chicago." As Leuchtenburg states, "Southernness is more a decision than a fate" (26). If this early presidential contest is any indication, his assessment certainly seems to

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West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional StudiesWest Virginia University Press

Published: Aug 9, 2008

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