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The Modern South In The Twentieth Century

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With air-conditioning, skyscrapers, interstates, rural improvement to shopping malls, the new South was no more plainly separated from the rest of the country. The political, economic and social change in the South brought historical movements, belief systems and patterns into the Modern South. I will be concentrating on Modern South 's political parties, social identities, culture wars, environmental conditions and change in economic aspects in the middle of WWII and today.
By the most recent years of the twentieth century, the Republican Party had turned into a noteworthy power in the South. Southern Republicans synchronized with the blasting economy of the South and the clearing political changes in the district to develop as the prevailing party in the South. The impoverished South of the 1870s had offered route to a prosperous Modern South of metropolitan urban communities, agribusiness, industrial plants, tourism, and service industries. Blacks had picked up the vote and the entrance to open office that they were denied to before, and this time their hold on office appeared to be more secure. Politicians of the Democratic Party in the South were moving far from white …show more content…

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