The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South - Hardcover

Shafer, Byron E.; Johnston, Richard G. C.

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ISBN 10: 0674019342 ISBN 13: 9780674019348

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2006

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of Southern Republicans, but post-World War II economic development. Enlightened opinion holds that the South is a racist, economic backwater where white backlash against the Civil Rights movement replaced the Democratic "Solid South" with Republican dominance in the region. Now Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston are challenging this enduring "myth." In "The End of Southern Exceptionalism", they convincingly argue that it wasn't the GOP playing the race card that spurred the rise of Southern Republicans, but post-World War II economic development.--Robert Saldin"New York Post" (04/09/2006) Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston, challenge the notion of regional distinctiveness and the centrality of race to Southern politics in their meticulous study, "The End of Southern Exceptionalism". They scour reams of electoral returns--this book is a sweet fix for political junkies--to challenge the theory that the Republican Party is nothing more than the remnant of the old conservative Democratic Party.--David Turner"News and Observer" (05/28/2006)

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The transformation of Southern politics after World War II changed the political life not just of this distinctive region, but of the entire nation. Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake. Where once the poor voted Republican and the rich Democrat, that pattern reversed, as economic development became the engine of Republican gains. Racial desegregation, never far from the heart of the story, often applied the brakes to these gains rather than fuelling them. A book that is bound to shake up the study of Southern politics, this will also become required reading for pundits and political strategists, for all those who argue over what it takes to carry the South.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0674019342
• ISBN 13: 9780674019348
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240