Tag: Dixie

Designing Dixie Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South


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English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813936705 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 3.5 mb
Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South. In Designing Dixie, Reiko Hillyer shows how these boosters crafted distinctive local pasts designed to promote their economic futures and to attract northern tourists and investors.

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A Diary From Dixie


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 9353600383 | EPUB | pages: 474 | 2.9 mb
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

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Dixie Highway Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930


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English | 2014 | ISBN: 1469612984, 1469629828 | EPUB | pages: 255 | 3.5 mb
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation’s earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern U.S. transportation system evolved out of the hard-fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie’s creation.

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Whistling Dixie Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D1SQFHQJ | 2024 | 10 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 605 MB
Author: Jonathan Bartho
Narrator: Frank Block

Jonathan Bartho’s Whistling Dixie explores the interdependent political relationship between Ronald Reagan and the white conservative South-a relationship that had a profound impact on Reagan’s own career, on the political landscape of the South and the entire United States, and on the identity of the modern Republican Party. Millions of southerners were attracted to the GOP by Reagan’s anti-statist ideology and their affection for the man himself-an affection that had been built over decades of appearances in the region. The support of these white southern conservatives was crucial to Reagan’s political success, ultimately propelling him to the White House in 1980.

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