"We must not holler till we are clean out of the woods" -- Social Darwinism, free-market fundamentalism, and "The status quo society" -- "We must wake up the Roosevelt worshippers to what the New Deal is doing to torpedo White supremacy" -- Gathering clouds -- Grits and circuses -- The laws of God and Alabama -- Feeding the monster: volume I -- The inexorableness of cultural continuities -- An oasis of liberalism? -- Brewing rebellion -- They crucified us -- The conservative revolt against civil rights and the national Democratic Party -- The Dixiecrat revolt in perspective: meanings and "the southern road" to America's new conservatism -- "Let us not wince any more when we hear the word Republican" -- Conclusion.