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Dixiecrats — conservative Southern Democrats in Congress — had long disrupted Roosevelt's reform legislation. In 1938, convinced that his landslide victory in 1936 proved the American people were behind him, Roosevelt set out to "purge" the party ranks of those Democrats he considered the most noxious. His efforts met with little success and contributed to the collapse of the New Deal majority in Congress. For the remaining two years of his second term as president, Roosevelt and the New Deal were on the defensive. In fact, many historians argue that the New Deal came to an end with the congressional elections of 1938.
Sources:
James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956);
Paul K. Conkin, F.D.R. and the Origin of the Welfare State (New York: Crowell, 1967); republished as The New Deal (New York...
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