Controlling Communist Subversion, 1948–1956

For years the political leaders of Georgia had been shrugging off the threat of red subversion, other than in election campaigns. Where party chieftains systematically pressed the Communist issue for political advantage in Michigan, it did not divide major factions in Georgia. Red scare rhetoric was most likely to be deployed when cracks appeared in the old order, but the cracks for the most part were soon cemented over and the political classes relaxed again. Serious internal convulsions had been avoided too because there were few radicals and relatively few integrationists in Georgia, that is to say little in the way of political enemies against whom red scare emotions might usefully be mobilized. Civil liberties bodies were weak, and the state’s liberals were eager to avow their own anticommunism. In these circumstances symbolic anticommunist measures might be adopted with little comment, as they equally ensnared no victims. The patriotic consensus within the state was protection of a kind against red scare pressures. But as the Cold War deepened, patriotic lobbies intensified their demands for action and the state authorities were obliged to address the Communist issue.

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