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  Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938-1947
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Last EditedRBH  Jul 03, 2007 05:25pm
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News DateTuesday, July 3, 2007 11:20:00 PM UTC0:0
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“The Man” fell because of the growing intolerance among many whites toward public racism and anti-Semitism. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s,white elites outside the South—defined here as leading daily newspapers,weekly magazines, organizations, and political leaders—largely ignored Bilbo’s racist incitements. World War II, however, brought about a significant change in elite attitudes. Due to the ideological war against Nazism, America’s emergence as a superpower, and the unifying nature ofthe conflict, the kind of virulent public racism that was a trademark of Bilbo’s career was no longer tolerated outside of the South. Bilbo’s career,from his return to the governor’s mansion in 1928 through the Senate debate over his seating in 1947, parallels and illustrates the declining tolerance of overt racism and nativism in the United States.
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