Heartlessness of Dixie: Alabama at the Millennium

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By Diana White and Donald Nolte ’68

Published April 5, 2017

Donald Nolte ’68 and Diana White’s Heartlessness of Dixie (Amazon) provides a look into social and political issues in Alabama’s history and recent past. Nolte and White review how topics like voting, education, immigration, criminal justice, and health care have been handled in the government and the courts of Alabama, noting how such considerations are particularly relevant today. Nolte is an attorney and retired Air Force lieutenant colonel.

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