Reason Magazine
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Jefferson Cowie's latest book, Freedom's Dominion, superimposes a dubious thesis about Southern history over the facts.
Cowie argues whites have repeatedly used doctrine of states' rights to justify their "freedom to dominate" others.
The Southern worldview, he argues, was a doctrine of "racialized radical anti-statism," which later spread to the North.
New Deal and Fair Deal initiatives were often negative for African Americans, says Julian Zelizer.
Zelizer: Cowie makes excuses for liberals who wanted to improve the lives of the poor.
He says Cowie wrongly implies that the states' rights doctrine was unique to the South.
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