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Operation Dixie was ultimately defeated by a Southern economic model that is #RootedinRacism. Political elites used state power to assist employers in opposing unions while stoking racism to divide Black and white workers. 🧵3/6
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While state and local governments in the South were hostile to Operation Dixie, the federal government could have been an ally. Federal intervention might have gone a long way to counterbalance the many challenges workers faced in organizing the South. 🧵4/6
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