The great realignment did not come with Roosevelt's election. It came two years later, when Northern cities could see what the programs actually delivered — and the programs were aimed at poverty, not at race. Historian Anthony Badger on the contradiction at the center of FDR's record: a president who needed Southern segregationists, and whose Supreme Court appointees handed down Brown.
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