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Supplanting the Roots of Southern Populism: The Contours of Political Protest in the Georgia Hills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Shawn Everett Kantor
Shawn Everett Kantor
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Professor of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, and Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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Steven Hahn, in his influential book The Roots of Southern Populism, viewed Populism in the Georgia Up-country as the culmination of a long-standing protest against the economic and social effects of commercialization in regions that were relatively isolated prior to the Civil War. In developing his explanation for the rise of Populism, Hahn emphasized the close relationship between voting for Populism in the 1890s and voting to keep the range open in the 1880s. The traditional agricultural practice in the South through the Civil War was to allow animals to roam the countryside freely and to force farmers to erect fences around their crops.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , September 1995 , pp. 637 - 646
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1995

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