Governor Eugene Talmadge opposed desegregation and what New Deal programs?

organized labor unions, free trade, state's rights

soil conservation, job training, and segregation of schools

welfare spending, federal government intervention, organized labor

electricity of rural areas, job creation for veterans, state's rights

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Dalia Pennington

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14 November, 13:45

Governor Eugene Talmadge opposed desegregation and what New Deal programs?

organized labor unions, free trade, state's rights

soil conservation, job training, and segregation of schools

welfare spending, federal government intervention, organized labor

electricity of rural areas, job creation for veterans, state's rights

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Camron Montgomery · Answer 1

The third answer (top to bottom) : welfare spending, federal government intervention, organized labor.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal found one of its opponents, the Governor Eugene Talmadge. He was governor of Georgia (1932) and was popular with the rural people. He opposed programs calling for greater government spending and economic regulation. His anti-corporate, pro-evangelical and white-supremacist tirades had great appeal.

In Talmadge government, Georgia state subverted some of the early New Deal programs (federal relief programs for example). He wanted the workers to have an incentive to return to private employers. He allied with conservative business interests by opposing government regulation, welfare spending, and the interests of organized labor.