This little piggy went to Dixie 

• 1964 
• Knox, Jack 
• Drawing 
• Historical item 

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Drawings / paintings

This little piggy went to Dixie

39.5 x 30 cm

1964

Original editorial cartoon on card in pencil, published in the Nashville Banner, 1964, shows a not so ‘little piggy’ in the form of the Democrat donkey taking ‘bigger, fatter socialistic schemes’ to ‘Dixie’ and the ‘southern Dem. voters’. In 1964 (president Lyndon B. Johnson) used the phrase the “Great Society" to describe an America where government spending initiatives would eradicate poverty and racial injustice and make the country a fairer and better place for all. The landslide election of 1964 gave the Democrats two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress, and this made it impossible for the more conservative southern Democrats in Dixie (the traditionally more conservative southern states) to block Johnson’s flood of legislative proposals, many of which were seen as ‘socialistic’, and therefore un-American. On the rear of the donkey is a sign (which for some reason has been erased) with the words ‘all the way with JFK-LBJ’, supporting the notion of this conservative cartoonist that Johnson’s Great Society donkey is a thinly disguised version of John Kennedy’s “New Frontier” pig, which was not popular in the south either. Card size 39.5 x 30 cm (15.5 x 12 inch), image size 37 x 28 cm, signed lower right. Caption in pencil on upper border, adhesive residue on verso, otherwise in very good condition.