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In Search of Another Country Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America SeriesEditors:WilliamChafe,GaryGerstle,LindaGordon, andJulianZelizer Alistoftitlesinthisseriesappearsatthebackofthebook In Search of Another Country Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution Joseph Crespino PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright©2007byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress,6OxfordStreet, Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201TW AllRightsReserved Secondprinting,andfirstpaperbackprinting,2009 PaperbackISBN:978-0-691-14094-0 TheLibraryofCongresshascatalogedtheclotheditionofthisbookasfollows Crespino,Joseph. Insearchofanothercountry:Mississippiandtheconservative counterrevolution/JosephCrespino. p. cm.(Politicsandsocietyintwentieth-centuryAmerica) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-0-691-12209-0(alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-691-12209-1(alk.paper) 1.Civilrightsmovements—Mississippi—History—20thcentury.2.Whites— Mississippi—Attitudes.3.Conservatism—Mississippi—History—20thcentury. 4.Mississippi—Politicsandgovernment—1951–5.Mississippi—Racerelations— History—20thcentury.I.Title.II.Series. F345 .C74 2007 976.2′063—dc22 2006932791 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinSabon Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ press.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For my mother and father, Barbara and Robert Crespino, and for Caroline CONTENTS ListofIllustrationsandTables ix Abbreviations xiii Acknowledgments xv INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTERONE PracticalSegregation 18 CHAPTERTWO TheLimitsofResistance 49 CHAPTERTHREE “TheHeartlandofConservativeAmerica” 75 CHAPTERFOUR RacialTroubleshooting 108 CHAPTERFIVE TheAmbivalenceofWhiteChristians 144 CHAPTERSIX TheIronyofSchoolDesegregation 173 CHAPTERSEVEN SouthernStrategiesinMississippi 205 CHAPTEREIGHT MississippiKulturkampf 237 CONCLUSION 267 Notes 279 Index 343

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