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Industrial fever reshapes the South with new wealth
An Associated Press analysis describes a shift as industry sweeps the South boosting payrolls and prosperity. White collar workers rise, a new middle class grows, urban rural tensions shift, and racial and political patterns begin to change under mechanization and investment. Business leaders anticipate more plants, jobs, and capital while cautions about disorder linger.
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South
Magnolia Shade
New South
Caldwell Marks
Alabama Chamber of Commerce
Joe W. Hart
Memphis State University
Perry H. Howard
Louisiana
Mississippi
Oxford
E. C. Barksdale
Arlington State
Fort Worth
Lee S. Greene
University of Tennessee
Georgia
State Senate
Asse J
Reed Sarratt
George Benedict
W. Cameron Mitchell
Frank Clement
Tennessee
Georgia Chamber of Couttsee
Merce
Benedict Mitchell