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

Shafer, Byron E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674032497 ISBN 13 : 9780674032491

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 fueling 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Byron E. Shafer is Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Chair of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Richard Johnston is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674032497
• ISBN 13: 9780674032491
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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