Noam Maggor is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in US history at Queen Mary University of London and the author of Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age. He is currently at work on a history of the “United States as a developing nation.”

11.15.2021

• Noam Maggor

We Can’t Blame the South Alone for Anti-Tax Austerity Politics

The South of slavery and Jim Crow is often cast as the major historical reason for the US’s stunted welfare state. But the most fanatical resistance to taxation and redistribution came from the Northern ruling class.