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Until You Live Alone in the Land: Development, Displacement, and Environmentalism in the Rural South, 1960-1994 UNTIL YOU LIVE ALONE IN THE LAND: DEVELOPMENT, DISPLACEMENT, AND ENVIRONMENTALISM IN THE RURAL SOUTH, 1960-1994 By MADISON WARD CATES A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2020 © 2020 Madison Ward Cates To my family for all their love and support ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Any significant undertaking requires a combination of luck and skill. The number of thoughtful, generous people who contributed to my personal and academic development leaves me grateful and undoubtedly lucky. At UF, my advisor Dr. William Link helped provide encouragement, strategic guidance, and accountability, each when I needed it most. His wealth of knowledge about the history of the South as well as his sharp editorial eye and willingness to support my career in a variety of ways proved an immeasurable blessing. I owe almost equal debts of gratitude to Dr. Lauren Pearlman. Her Modern America class challenged me to read widely, analyze incisively, and become a better historian overall. As a teaching mentor and committee member, Dr. Pearlman’s encouragement to dig deeper after reading Chapter 3 helped revive me with unexpected confidence to press on at many moments when I felt deflated and exhausted. To my other committee members—Drs. Ben Wise, Paul Ortiz, and Sevan Terzian—I give my deepest thanks for your willingness to read drafts, offer helpful questions, and support my professional development encouraged me to not forget the fundamentals of the historian’s craft and the value of passion in approaching a subject. Other faculty at UF, most notably Drs. Steve Noll, Elizabeth Dale, Michelle Campos, Jon Sensbach, Florin Curta, Michelle Newman, and Matt Gallman, all at some point reviewed part of this project, evaluated my teaching, or just offered simple encouragement at times when I felt isolated or discouraged. My graduate cohort here at UF has helped me improve in so many ways as a teacher and scholar. Working with AJ Donaldson and Meagan Frenzer as TAs during the memorable semester of fall 2016 not only provided me with many comical memories, but I learned so much from their approaches to teaching. I count myself fortunate to work with them and so many others including Tim Blanton, Matt Simmons, Kaitlyn Muchnok, Raja Rahim, Oren Okhovat, 4 and David Meltsner. Time spent with Tim, Cacey Farnsworth, and many others from the Friday basketball group never failed to help revive my flagging spirits. I would not be at UF if not for the countless hours devoted to my career by faculty and friends at both NC State and Gardner-Webb University. In particular, Drs. Katherine Mellen Charron, Matthew Booker, Susanna Lee, and the late Walter Jackson contributed so much to my intellectual development and my skills as a teacher. They built on the solid foundation laid by my incredible mentors at Gardner-Webb, namely Drs. Timothy Vanderburg, David K. Yelton, and Joseph S. Moore. Everything I hope to be and do as a historian is modeled of their incredible examples. Their impact on me as scholars, teachers, and mentors are unrivaled. My time at GWU provided me with lifelong friendships that sustained me at key points in my graduate career. Visits from the Angels and McGraths, phone calls from dear friends, along with recent excursions to the McGraths’s Fernandina Beach estate offered timely reminders of how Gardner- Webb is a place that forges unique bonds of friendship that transcend time and distance. So many archivists, historians, and other scholars contributed to this project. In particular, my thanks go out to the staff of the various libraries I visited in North and South Carolina. Support from the North Caroliniana Society, the Florida Division of the Colonial Dames of America, and the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere also provided me with invaluable time to do research. To make the most of this time, I am thankful for conversations with historians like Will Bryan, Mark Hersey, and Andrew Baker along with experts in all things North Carolina like Mike Hill, Walter Beeker, and many others who proved immensely generous with their time. Their comments helped me focus this project in so many helpful ways. Last, but certainly not least, my life has been enriched by so many loving and incredibly wise family members over the last five-plus years. In Gainesville, our Creekside family has been 5 such a caring community and refuge for Carly and me. We would be less without the Burklews, Friedmans, Lebos, Dykes, Garrens, Roths, Waits, and so many others. Thankfully, we are more because of all of you. We are so grateful to each of you for the deep wells of joy, encouragement, and hospitality all of you have shown us. Closer to home, my inexpressible, unending thanks go out to my wife Carly, my parents David and Nancy, my sister Claire, and all my extended family (Wards, Cates, Grahams) who nurtured and encouraged my love for studying the past, but most of all, who kept me optimistic, humble, and, above all else, who remind me of what is most important. Their consistent belief in me always helped to drown out my nagging doubts. All of you encouraged my efforts, made me laugh when I needed it most, joyfully put up with my large book collections, and so much more than I have space to write about here. And, of course, walks with Bryson provided the best way to shake my writer’s block. Lastly, I give my deepest love and gratitude to Carly, in particular, for being an inexhaustible source of support and love each day of the past nearly six-plus years. 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...............................................................................................................4 LIST OF FIGURES .........................................................................................................................9 ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................10 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................12 2 ERASING DECLINE: THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER, TVA, AND A RURAL SILENT MAJORITY, 1962-1973 ..........................................................................................44 Background on the Upper French Broad River Valley, 1916-1966 .......................................44 Designs on the Upper French Broad: The TVA and Economic Development in Western North Carolina, 1962-1968 .................................................................................................49 A Rural Silent Majority: The Triumph of the Upper French Broad Defense Association, 1969-1973 ...........................................................................................................................63 TVA and the Changing Politics of Regional Planning ...........................................................81 3 A LOCAL AND NATIONAL TREASURE: THE NEW RIVER IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION, 1968-1976 ..................................................................................................91 The New River As It Was, 1945-1962 ...................................................................................91 Place and Possibility: Rural Development in the New River Valley, 1962-1971 ..................96 False Starts: Early Opposition to the Blue Ridge Project, 1968-1972 .................................101 Opposition Grows at the State and National Levels, 1971-1974 ..........................................111 Dam Building and the Rivers of the South in the Late Twentieth Century ..........................134 4 MOUNTAIN LAND GRAB: TENSIONS OVER LAND USE AND TOURISM IN LATE-TWENTIETH CENTURY APPALACHIA .............................................................142 Land Use and Population Change in Southern Appalachia, 1929-1970 ..............................142 Retreat from Subtropical Suburbia: “Florida People” and the Remaking of Western North Carolina ...................................................................................................................153 Growth and its Discontents: North Carolina and the Politics of Land Use Management ....163 Legacies of Displacement and Preservation in Southern Appalachia ..................................176 5 POVERTY AS PRESERVATIVE: LAND, HUNGER, AND BELONGING IN LOWCOUNTRY SOUTH CAROLINA, 1964-1969 ...........................................................183 Migration and Injustice in the Rural South, 1945-1965 .......................................................183 “Heaven, Hell, or Baltimore:” Reversing the Great Migration, 1964-1970 .........................188 7 Hunger and Magnolias, Hookworms and Spanish Moss: The Anti-Malnutrition Movement in Beaufort County, 1967-1969 ......................................................................199 “The German Invasion:” An Industrial Solution to the Poverty Problem, 1969-1970 .........210 6 THE LORD WILL PROVIDE IF HE IS PERMITTED: HILTON HEAD ISLAND AND THE BASF CONTROVERSY, 1969-1971 ................................................................224 Background on Hilton Head’s Tourism Industry .................................................................224 The Bridge and the Damage Done, 1951-1970 ....................................................................227 Whose Hilton Head? Race and Inequality ............................................................................234 Progress
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