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Feet In The South, Eyes To The West: Fort Smith Enters The Sunbelt, Adam Morrison Carson
Feet In The South, Eyes To The West: Fort Smith Enters The Sunbelt, Adam Morrison Carson
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This paper examines the political realignment of Fort Smith, Arkansas and argues that the standard historiographical argument about the process of realignment does not explain what occurred in this city. Much of the historiography of political realignment currently revolves around the belief in a white backlash against the federal government and the national Democratic Party for their support of African American civil rights. Though historians have moved toward a "suburban synthesis" that downplays the backlash thesis, historians still argues that many white southerners moved to the suburbs to avoid integration.
I argue that this process did not occur in the …