Dan Carter is one of the best historians of the South. A native of  South Carolina, he won the Bancroft Prize for his first book, Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South,  which was published in 1969. Since then, he has written about the  Reconstruction period, before turning his attention to 20th century  politics in The Politics of Rage: The Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of Politics (1995) and From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 (1999). Retired from teaching, he lives in western North Carolina,  where he is writing about the white supremacist, faux Native American,  and Hollywood screenwriter, Forrest Carter.

Colin and Dan talk  about southern politics; the realignment of parties in the late-20th  century; the persistence of Lost Cause ideology; and worrisome nature of  the Trump era.

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