Segregationists recruited businessmen as their moderate alliance cracked
Evidence
For over a decade, these two groups had worked together to maintain a spirit of progress and progressivism in Atlanta and also keep the white working class at bay. Now, these former allies found their interests diverging and themselves increasingly at odds. As the gap between them grew, the city’s segregationists saw an opportunity, at long last, to drive a wedge between them and bring the city’s influential businessmen to their side. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 440
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Maddox recruited white merchants to fight integration as a matter of self-interest — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 447; The Ku Klux Klan mounted counterpickets to protect segregationist businesses — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 435; Desegregation pressure forced segregationists to reinvent themselves as respectable homeowners — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 106 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Respectable segregationism paired capitalism rhetoric with veiled mob violence
#expands(0.80) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 132 - Desegregation pressure forced segregationists to reinvent themselves as respectable homeowners
#expands(0.75) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 106 - Respectable segregationists framed exclusion of blacks as a symmetry of individual choice
#expands(0.75) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 372 - De jure segregation served to unite white populations facing internal conflict
#exemplifies(0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1751 - Outbidding parties poach defectors from moderate rivals to consolidate in-group unity.
#corroborates(0.70) — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 54