When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was
unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region's
economy was the weakest, its education level the lowest, and its laws
and social mores the most racially slanted. Roosevelt's New Deal
effected significant changes on the southern landscape, challenging many
traditions and laying the foundations for subsequent alterations in the
southern way of life. In The South and the New Deal, Roger Biles
examines the New D