Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0005
Robert Christensen
With his mandate, Kerr Scott started one of the nation’s largest road building programs, designed to pave the thousands of dirt roads that most country people used. Scott used all his political skills to overcome a hostile legislature, oil companies, and the cities who didn’t want all the road money spent in the rural areas.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0011
Robert Christensen
Gov. Bob Scott was elected as a moderate and he had a less ambitious agenda than his father. His toughest legislative fight was pushing through the state’s first cigarette tax to finance a kindergarten system. This was a difficult in a state where “King Tobacco” was critical to the state’s economy.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0007
R. Christensen
Kerr Scott shocked the political world by appointing Frank Porter Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina and the South’s leading liberal to a U.S. Senate vacancy. But Graham was unable to hold the seat, defeated in a red-baiting and race baiting campaign. The 1950 Senate campaign unsettled Scott, which caused him to retreat on the race issue and damaged him politically.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0008
R. Christensen
Kerr Scott is elected to the Senate in 1954, defeating race-baiting tactics by his opponent. Despite his progressive record as governor, Scott was not one of the Senate’s liberals and did not cut as large a figure. He joins with the segregationist Southern bloc in the Senate. He dies in office in 1958.
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The 1968 election saw the transformation of North Carolina elections with Republicans and African-Americans becoming rising political forces. Campaigning on a law and order ticket, Scott won by putting together a coalition that included rural whites and just enough urban blacks. North Carolina shifted to the political right with Republican Richard Nixon winning the state and with independent George Wallace coming in second.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0016
Robert Christensen
The Scott’s rural progressivism helped set North Carolina on a more moderate course than most of the South. But the sixties and seventies blunted that progressivism. The reasons included a white backlash to school integration, social unrest, the rise of the middle class, the decline of farming, and the difficulty in holding together black/white coalitions.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0012
R. Christensen
Bob Scott was governor during one of the most difficult periods in the 20th century. His term coincided with black student activism, anti-Vietnam War protests, and school integration. North Carolina was the scene of building takeovers, marches, fire bombings, and riots. Scott responded by taking a tough law-and-order stance that offended many African-Americans and white liberals, but was popular among many white conservatives and moderates.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0009
Robert Christensen
Robert Scott picks up his father’s mantle in politics. He becomes head of the state Grange, and is elected lieutenant governor in 1964 after considering a run for governor. But he is a smoother, more moderate figure than his father. With controversy rising over civil rights and riots, Bob Scott becomes a supporter of law and order.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0006
R. Christensen
Kerr Scott also leaned on the power companies to extend electric and telephones to the countryside to help bring farmers into the 20th century. He was also more moderate on racial issues than most other Southern governors.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0003
Robert Christensen
The Great Depression made a hard life even worse. Out of the rural poverty, Kerr Scott led a re-organized State Grange to fight for famer interests. This provided Kerr Scott with a political base to be elected state agriculture commissioner in 1936 as a New Deal Democrat.
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