The traditional conservatism of Southern Agrarians, are you kidding. They were lock step in line with the New Deal as long as Roosevelt looked the other way on Jim Crow. Who was to benefit from the giant boondogle called the TVA. Hell, guys like Huey Long were even further to the left than FDR. The so-called traditional Southern Agrarian was conservative on Social Issues, but economics, he was a major partner in creating the New Deal. The South was no bastion of Conservatism until recently. Do not buy in to the Liberal story that the old Southern racist pols were Conservative. They were as Left as their Northern compatriots on any issue dealing with Economics.
He was a frickin' Fascist is what he was....thank God for Mr. Weiss.
“The South was no bastion of Conservatism until recently”
Dude, put away the crack pipe. It only makes your yankee mind more benighted than nature created you, and its original state was handicap enough. Huey Long and FDR were not Agrarians, nor were they supported by Agrarians. The last politician the Agrarians admired was likely Jefferson.
While your version of what you think Agrarian conservatism might have been is highly entertaining it doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to reality. Quit using that copy of ‘I’ll Take My Stand’ for a door stop and read it, and then we can have a rational discussion.