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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jennifer A. Delton. Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 226. $29.95.
In this important book, Jennifer A. Delton shows that Minnesota politics underwent a fundamental change during the 1940s, and argues that its direction illuminates the building of a "new Democratic political order." In contrast to much recent historiography, but in keeping with the work of such diverse scholars as Alonzo Hamby, Julian Zelizer, David Plotke, and Sidney Milkis, she finds that the years after 1945 saw the spirit of statist liberalism consolidated and expanded, rather than extirpated. The new equilibrium in politics, she finds, was "distinctly more 'left' than anything the nation had seen before, if by left we mean state responsibility for its citizens' economic and social well-being" (p. 24).	1
It is easy enough to see how one might use the national Democratic Party's greater interest in black civil rights during the 1940s to make the case for a broadened rather than constricted liberal impulse. On the face of it, making Minnesota the case study for exploring this development is less obvious, given its tiny African-American population. Still, it was Minneapolis mayor Hubert H. Humphrey who electrified the 1948 Democratic convention by declaring that "the time has arrived in America for the Democratic party to get out of the shadows of states' rights to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights" (p. 121).	. . .

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