The End of Southern Exceptionalism

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

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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 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.

Author Biography:

Byron E. Shafer is Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Richard Johnston is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

Release date Australia

March 1st, 2009

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Further/Higher Education
General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

39 line illustrations, 30 tables

Pages

240

Dimensions

146x227x18

ISBN-13

9780674032491

Product ID

2772177

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