Title The rise of Southern Republicans / Earl Black, Merle Black

Edition 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 442 pages) : illustrations Contents The southern transformation -- Confronting the democratic juggernaut -- The promising peripheral south -- The impenetrable deep south -- The democratic smother -- The democratic domination -- Reagan's realignment of white southerners -- A new party system in the south -- The peripheral south breakthrough -- The deep south challenge -- The republican surge -- Competitive south, competitive America Summary The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of formidable Republican strength in the previously solid Democratic South has generated a novel and highly competitive national battle for control of Congress. Tracing the slow and difficult rise of Republicans in the South over five decades, Earl and Merle Black tell the remarkable story of political upheaval. The Rise of Southern Republicans provides a compelling account of growing competitiveness in Southern party politics and elections. Through extraordinary research and analysis, the authors track Southern voters' shifting economic, cultural, and religious loyalties, black/white conflicts and interests during and after federal civil rights intervention, and the struggles and adaptations of congressional candidates and officials. A newly competitive South, the authors argue, means a newly competitive and revitalized America. The story of how the South became a two-party region is ultimately the story of two-party politics in America at the end of the twentieth century. Earl and Merle Black have written a bible for anyone who wants to understand regional and national congressional politics over the past half-century. Because the South is now at the epicenter of Republican and Democratic strategies to control Congress, The Rise of Southern Republicans is essential to understanding the dynamics of current American politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-431) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) SUBJECT Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) fast Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. Politics and government SUBJECT Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125659 Subject Southern States Form Electronic book Author Black, Merle. ISBN 9780674020986 0674020987 0674012488 9780674012486

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