Urban and Regional Interests

Pederson, William D. (editor) / Luconi, Stefano (author)

A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt ; 114-134

Blackwell Companions to American History

2011-03-25

21 pages

9781444395181 , 9781444330168

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395181.ch7

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

power struggle, among Democrats at the state level ‐ detrimental to their party's electoral effectiveness and, consequently, to long‐term success of the New Deal , The State and Local Levels (1975), a reassessment ‐ of both local effects of and response to Roosevelt's policies, by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner and David Brody , Allan J. Lichtman (1979), rejecting ethno‐cultural thesis ‐ the Depression, as the major stimulus for Roosevelt's urban electoral following in 1930s , urban scenario, and Roosevelt's policies ‐ their implementation at the urban level, a scholarly concern , Samuel Lubell saying, “before the Roosevelt Revolution there was an Al Smith Revolution” , regional dimension, and Roosevelt's local policies and politics ‐ wider framework of diverse reception of president's programs by low‐tier administrations , regional stress, central to interpretation ‐ of Roosevelt presidency, since its inception , urban and regional interests , Roosevelt coalition, paving the way for enactment of president's measures ‐ from an alliance of Western and Southern voters, with Northeastern working class, replacing Northeastern business‐oriented Republican majority of 1920s , building upon findings of an array of preceding studies ‐ Biles pointing to the New Deal as the turning point for the postwar modernization of the South