The latest presidential election demonstrated the national importance of the shifting demographics and partisan leanings of the Southern states. When it first a

The last presidential election showed without a doubt the prominence of the Southern states in the national political landscape. When it first appeared in 1998,

This book is a systematic interpretation of the most important national and state tendencies in southern politics since 1920. The authors contend that, notable

"Southerners' search for a stable identity and their at times fierce defense of slavery were, according to Grammer, a response to what J. G. A. Pocock has calle

Political scientist V. O. Key in 1949 described North Carolina as a "progressive plutocracy." He argued that in the areas of industrial development, public educ