{"title":"1948","authors":"R. Christensen","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Kerr Scott won one of the biggest upsets in North Carolina history when he was elected governor, defeating a well-entrenched political machine that had controlled state politics for decades. Scott assembled a political coalition that included farmers, textile workers, organized labor, and African-Americans.","PeriodicalId":288356,"journal":{"name":"The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Kerr Scott won one of the biggest upsets in North Carolina history when he was elected governor, defeating a well-entrenched political machine that had controlled state politics for decades. Scott assembled a political coalition that included farmers, textile workers, organized labor, and African-Americans.