The End of Southern Exceptionalism: class, race, and partisan change in the postwar South

The End of Southern Exceptionalism: class, race, and partisan change in the postwar South
ISBN-10
0674043464
ISBN-13
9780674043466
Category
Political Science
Pages
234
Language
English
Published
2009-06-30
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Authors
Richard Johnston, Byron E. Shafer

Description

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.

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