1. Interesting discussion of Walt Kelly, Pogo & race here: http://www.tcj.com/sometimes-a-watermelon-is-just-a-watermelon/ … and here: http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/04/walt-kelly-and-me/ …
7. Not sufficient to say that New Deal Liberalism was compromised by alliance with Jim Crow South. Flipside was progressive hope for South.
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8. Some 1940s progressives hoped South, hotbed of support for the New Deal, could overcome racism, it would be heartland of US left.
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9. Attempt to see South as having hopeful post-racial future evident in AFL-CIO's Operation Dixie & Woody Gutherie's recasting of folk music
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