Implementation of Alabama’s Antebellum External MED All this palaver about migrations and political culture and their shaping of Alabama’s antebellum policy systems “hits the road”
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8.7 Formation of Alabama’s Cotton Belt Policy System: Intro
There is a lot of moving parts floating around in this two-module case study of the formation of the first “non-womb” Cotton Belt state: Alabama.
8.6 Cotton Belt Exodus from the Womb: Time Line and Shared Dynamics
John Weaver described the settlement of the American Cotton Belt as “a great land rush” [1]. Instead of a “gold rush” (which we are are
8.5 Cotton’s Profit Life-Cycle: Tough Times for Cotton Leads to Upcountry Industrialization
Hard times hit the Upcountry especially because its soils were wearing thin. Upcountry plantation owners replaced lost fields by buying out bankrupted neighbors, but increasingly
8.4 Deep South Political Culture Integrated Into South Carolina and Georgia State Policy Systems
We could have titled this module “South Carolina Upcountry Deep South Culture Makes its Peace with the Barbadian/Federalist South Carolina Political Culture. Formation of the
8.3 Deep South Political Culture Develops in the Womb of the Cotton Belt: Upcountry South Carolina
The Cotton Belt was an overnight phenomena that took its own sweet time, over seventy years. The development of the Deep South Cotton Belt, without
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