Efforts to scrap TVA for parts and sell to private industry for pennies on the dollar are not new. Even before TVA existed, the dam and munitions plant at Muscle Shoals was the subject of the same debate after WWI; the fight by George Norris to keep that from happening is part of the reason Norris Dam bears his name.
In 1933, the South, and the Valley in particular, were essentially the Third world. Malaria was endemic, and only one percent of rural farms had electricity. Rural areas ... more