The Disappearing South? : Studies in Regional Change and Continuity.

The Disappearing South? : Studies in Regional Change and Continuity.

There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War II. Social, demographic, economic, and political changes have altered significantly the region long considered the nation's most distinctive. There is less agreement, however, about the extent to wh...

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Main Author: Steed, Robert P.
Other Authors: Moreland, Laurence W., Baker, Tod A., Black, Merle, Black, Earl, Carmines, Edward G., Stanley, Harold W. (Harold Watkins), Green, John C., Guth, James L., Bowman, Lewis, Hulbary, William E., Kelley, Anne E., Wainscott, Stephen H., Feig, Douglas G., Kellstedt, Lyman A., Theilmann, John, Wilhite, Allen, Eamon, Tom, Reed, John Shelton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Since 1951
Regionalism > Southern States.
Political culture > Southern States.
Political culture
Politics and government
Regionalism
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States Local History.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1951-
Southern States
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by John Shelton Reed; Acknowledgments; Part I: Southern-National Political Convergence; 1. The South in the Senate: Changing Patterns of Representation on Committees; 2. Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary South: Where Have all the Conservatives Gone?; 3. The Transformation of Southern Political Elites: Regionalism Among Party and PAC Contributors; 4. Party Sorting at the Grass Roots: Stable Partisans and Party-Changers Among Florida's Precinct Officials; 5. Consequences of Southern School Desegregation: Myth and Reality; Part II: The Continuing South.
  • 6. Dimensions of Southern Public Opinion on Prayer in Schools7. Evangelical Religion and Support for Social Issue Policies: An Examination of Regional Variation; 8. Searching for the Mind of the South in the Second Reconstruction; 9. Labor Money in Southern Elections: Continuation of an Old Trend; 10. The Militant Republican Right in North Carolina Elections: Legacy of the Old Politics of Race; Postscript; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

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