In Dollars for Dixie, Katherine Rye Jewell demonstrates how conservative southern industrialists pursued a political campaign to preserve regional economic arrangements.

Katherine Rye Jewell is Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, Massachusetts.

Introduction. The New South and the New Deal; Part I. Working within the New Deal: 1. The New South and the NRA; 2. Southern industry and the Southern region; 3. Confronting the 'Wagner monstrosity'; Part II. Free Enterprise and the South: 4. Creating the nation's economic 'opportunity' no. 1; 5. Rates, war, and the turn to free enterprise; 6. The South as the 'bulwark of democracy'; 7. Downplaying Dixie; Conclusion. The politics of free enterprise.