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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455409603321

Autore

Shafer Byron E

Titolo

The end of Southern exceptionalism [[electronic resource] ] : class, race, and partisan change in the postwar South / / Byron E. Shafer, Richard Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-674-04346-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p. ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnstonRichard <1948->

Disciplina

975.043

Soggetti

Political parties - Southern States

Social classes - Southern States

Electronic books.

Southern States Politics and government 1951-

Southern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Nature of the Puzzle -- 2. Economic Development and a Politics of Class -- 3. Legal Desegregation and a Politics of Race -- 4. Class, Race, and Partisan Change -- 5. Social Forces and Partisan Politicians -- 6. Old South, New South, No South? -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1950's and pulling everything else in its wake.