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Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment
362 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
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December 23, 2019
A lot of names influencing public policy in the 70s are named in here. It claims the Southern American states role in national politics grew because of the post WWII real-estate boom, agribusiness, military contractors, services/leisure (sports, travel, etc) growth industries. The capital that developed the South came relatively more from Washington than the traditional sources on Wall Street, this started during the FDR administration, and organized crime activity. The Southern cowboys introduced a culture of more brazen criminality into national politics unlike the more subtle older Yankee establishment was comfortable with. Turns into more of a biography of the downfall of Nixon.
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