'Snet,' Our Man in Miami: Urban Tourism, Illegal Gambling, and the Challenge of a Sinful Southern City, 1941-1944

Autor:	Keith D. Revell
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Urban Studies History Politics Sociology and Political Science State (polity) Economy media_common.quotation_subject Political science Center (algebra and category theory) Miami media_common Urban tourism
Zdroj:	Journal of Urban History. 49:353-387
ISSN:	1552-6771 0096-1442
DOI:	10.1177/00961442211013787
Popis:	South Florida developed as an urban gambling resort center that posed both cultural and political challenges to the traditional southern values that animated the state’s approach to regulating vice. This article examines the conflicts over vice tourism in South Florida by focusing on the relationship between Governor Spessard Holland and former Miami Beach Mayor Louis “Snet” Snedigar. Snedigar became Holland’s undercover informant when the governor cracked down on illegal gambling as part of his effort to fund the state’s old-age pension program by taxing bets placed at horse tracks in South Florida. By exploring the entanglement between a conservative southern state and a “liberal” urban outpost, this article illustrates how the southern approach to urban development forestalled the emergence of South Florida as a recreational gambling resort comparable to Las Vegas.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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