Say MacArthur is tapped to lead the coup instead of Butler, and the coup actually occurs.
Would any states defect? Where would support for the coup be concentrated?
Would any states defect? Where would support for the coup be concentrated?
Not so sure about south. There were certain progressive strains, even above and beyond Huey Long and lesser known politicians.
Yes, the business plotters will try to buy off the south with segregation, just like the Nazis tried to buy off the industrialists, the anti-semites, the traditionalists, etc.
Claude Pepper. Maury Maverick. Sam Rayburn.Could you provide examples of these progressive southerners?
They seem like interesting characters
Wasn't the South very sceptically inclined towards "Northern Business Interests".Maybe in the south
There was Gov. “Big Jim” Folsom of Alabama first elected I think in ‘46.Could you provide examples of these progressive southerners?
They seem like interesting characters
And one year he also gave a Christmas message, in which he asked if we were really doing right by our fellow citizens who are African-American?http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20021222/southern-lights-big-jim-folsoms-christmas-vision
‘ . . . He got funding for farm-to-market roads, trade schools, pensions for the elderly and new hospitals around the state. He advocated prison reform. . . ’