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Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love.
PHILADELPHIA DIVIDED: RACE AND POLITICS IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE
By James Wolfinger
University of North Carolina Press, 336 pages
IN THE EYES OF many liberals, working-class whites' votes for the Republican party are antithetical to their own self-interests. It is a question that has vexed political commentators and historians alike, but rather than look to the Reagan era, or even Vietnam, historian James Wolfinger begins his thorough exploration of the topic with New Deal liberalism in Philadelphia. In doing so, he demonstrates how racism in the North created an "inner city" of poor Black communities.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love.