The rational Southerner : black mobilization, republican growth, and the partisan transformation of the American South

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The rational Southerner : black mobilization, republican growth, and the partisan transformation of the American South

Title remainder

black mobilization, republican growth, and the partisan transformation of the American South

Statement of responsibility

M.V. Hood III, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris

Creator

• Hood, M. V

Contributor

• Kidd, Quentin
• Morris, Irwin L., (Irwin Lester), 1967-

Subject

• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Party affiliation -- Southern States
• Political culture -- Southern States
• Racism -- Southern States
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• Southern States -- Politics and government
• Southern States -- Race relations
• African Americans -- Southern States -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

What drove the transformation of post-World War II politics in the South? In The Rational Southerner, M. V. Hood, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris develop a theory of relative advantage to explain why whites fled the Democratic Party and what propelled black political mobilization. Collating decades of data, the authors demonstrate that race was, and is, the chief force behind political change in the region

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

specialized