Re: [PEN-L] The USA has become the South

[Eugene Coyle]

Who did cripple the WPA / New Deal? Gene Coyle Carrol Cox wrote: Doug Henwood wrote: Has become? What about all those years when Southern dinosaurs ruled Congress, and FDR had to defer to them in designing the New Deal? Yes. But was the New Deal really _designed_? That implies a great deal more coherence both in practice and in intention than I would assume. And it wasn't southern senators that were responsible for the drive to cripple the core of the New Deal (in so far as it was really a _new_ deal) -- the WPA -- a couple years before the war completed the task. Carrol