******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. *****************************************************************
One thing that was a "side effect" of the New Deal was that the Northern blacks who had the right to vote and who had been reliably Republican since Reconstruction became Democratic as a result of the New Deal provision of jobs, "relief" (= welfare), and other opportunities in the unionizing sectors of US manufacturing --- This reliably Democratic voting bloc became and important pressure point on Democrats in Congress to break with the Southern segregationists and support the legislative agenda of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s --- yes, it took over 30 years for the "fruits" of those New Deal changes to work their way through the polity --- but I think it is not too much of a stretch to say that the Roosevelt administration in the effects it had in Northern and Western states led to the new pro-Civil Rights coalition (which remember, included Everett Dirksen of the Senate who helped engineer the cloture votes that stopped Southern filibusters of the 1964 and 65 acts which were the centerpieces of the "Second Reconstruction.") -- First political "shot" fired in that struggle was arguably Harry Truman's (mostly symbolic) "desegregation" of the US armed forces --- it was Eisenhower who actually did it later on .... <https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/new-deal-segregation-richard-rothstein-walker-color-of-law> > <http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm> > <https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mameerop%40gmail.com> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
