
Third Draft
Alabama's 140-Year Class War, with Steve Suitts
<p>Steve Suitts has spent decades studying Alabama; along the way, he came to know Big Jim Folsom, George Wallace, and Derrick Bell. His book A War of Sections centers the class war that structured Alabama politics for 140 years.</p><p>In this conversation:</p><p>* 1819: Black Belt planters vs North Alabama plain folk at statehood</p><p>* Some plain folk refuse Confederacy’s war</p><p>* Redemption, planters take the state back</p><p>* 1901: planters disenfranchise black Alabamians and many poor whites</p><p>* 1921: black and white miners defeat another disfranchisement amendment</p><p>* Big Jim Folsom: the plain fo...



