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“Southern Democrats, by contrast, made up an essential and permanent part of the New Deal, for they commanded votes required for any of the domestic and international programs advanced by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman to become law. The Jim Crow South was the one collaborator America’s democracy could not do without.”

“Of The New Deal’s many achievements, none was more important than the demonstration that liberal democracy - a political system with a legislature at its heart - could govern effectively in the face of great danger.”