Abstract
In some ways, the Consolidation started all the way back in the big war they had in the middle of the twentieth century, when the South was still way behind the rest of the country--behind even the ridiculously cold parts up north and the ridiculously dry parts out west. They had to build big army bases and big ships for the war, so they moved some of that to the South and paid people more than southerners had ever earned before. Cities grew real fast, and people got new cars and houses and things when the war ended, but the government and businesses kept spending.
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
0-8203-2411-6
Publication Date
2002
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2002 University of Georgia Press. This book chapter first appeared in South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-First Century.
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Recommended Citation
Ayers, Edward L. "The Inevitable Future of the South." In South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Fred Hobson, 87-107. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.