Book contents
- Race, Class, and Social Welfare
- Race, Class, and Social Welfare
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 American Politics and Social Welfare
- 2 Politics at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Oligarchy
- 3 Civil Rights, Social Welfare, and Populism
- 4 Civil Rights and Populism
- 5 Race, Class, and the End of the New Deal in the US Senate
- 6 Transforming the Twentieth-Century House
- 7 Race, Class, and a Transformed Political Economy
- 8 Dueling Populists and the Political Ecology of 2016
- 9 Conclusion: The Dangers of Upside-Down Populism
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Transforming the Twentieth-Century House
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2020
- Race, Class, and Social Welfare
- Race, Class, and Social Welfare
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 American Politics and Social Welfare
- 2 Politics at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Oligarchy
- 3 Civil Rights, Social Welfare, and Populism
- 4 Civil Rights and Populism
- 5 Race, Class, and the End of the New Deal in the US Senate
- 6 Transforming the Twentieth-Century House
- 7 Race, Class, and a Transformed Political Economy
- 8 Dueling Populists and the Political Ecology of 2016
- 9 Conclusion: The Dangers of Upside-Down Populism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter addresses the ideological transformation of political parties as they were represented by state delegations within the House of Representatives. So long as social welfare policy was kept separate from civil rights, it was politically feasible for southern delegations to support social welfare. The coupling of civil rights and social welfare led to a wholesale partisan realignment within the House as well as within the country as a whole. After keeping civil rights legislation off the congressional agenda throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the dam burst and members of both parties in the House and in the Senate confronted a politically charged climate surrounding not only civil rights legislation but social welfare legislation as well. House Democrats in the South had been fully complicit in bottling up civil rights legislation while supporting social welfare legislation in the form of the New Deal and Fair Deal initiatives.
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- Race, Class, and Social WelfareAmerican Populism Since the New Deal, pp. 107 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020