The Transformation of Southern Politics - Hardcover

Bass, Thomas A.

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9780465086955: The Transformation of Southern Politics

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ISBN 10: 0465086950 ISBN 13: 9780465086955

Publisher: Basic Books, 1976

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Stressing the relevance of The Transformation of Southern Politics as a background for understanding the South into the next century, Jack Bass and Walter De Vries write that the "themes of change in southern politics still involve the rise of the Republican Party, black political development and the Democratic response to it--and the interaction of these forces with social and economic issues." The Transformation of Southern Politics examines the post-World War II political evolution of the eleven southern states and traces the effects of such influences as Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, urban migration, the growth of the Republican Party, and the rise of African Americans in the political landscape.Relying on the methodology that V. O. Key used in his 1949 classic Southern Politics in State and Nation, the work draws on interviews with more than 360 politicians, scholars, journalists, and labor le

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Jack Bass is an emeritus professor of humanities and social sciences at the College of Charleston. His many books include The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina and Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond. Walter De Vries is the executive director of the North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership. He is a coauthor of Checked and Balanced: How Ticket-Splitters Are Shaping the New Balance of Power in American Politics.

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