| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968–1976. By Gordon E. Harvey. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. x, 229 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-1157-2.)

Conventional wisdom holds that Jimmy Carter's election as president in 1976 signaled the South's return to America's political mainstream. But did the prodigal truly return? Skeptics have attributed the blurring of sectional boundaries in the 1970s and 1980s less to repentance below the Potomac than to the spread of conservative values outside the old Confederacy. Taking a more hopeful view, Gordon E. Harvey stresses the political sea change that accompanied the collapse of diehard segregation in the late 1960s. As the subtitle of his book indicates, Harvey regards southern governors of the 1970s as a new breed committed to racial fairness and the expansion of economic opportunity through improvements in education.

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