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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455444703321

Autore

Steed Robert P

Titolo

The Disappearing South? [[electronic resource] ] : Studies in Regional Change and Continuity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013

ISBN

0-585-14108-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MorelandLaurence W

BakerTod A

BlackMerle

BlackEarl <1942->

CarminesEdward G

StanleyHarold W

GreenJohn C

GuthJames L

BowmanLewis <1929-2006.>

HulbaryWilliam E

KelleyAnne E

WainscottStephen H

FeigDouglas G

KellstedtLyman A

SteedRobert P

TheilmannJohn

WilhiteAllen

EamonTom

ReedJohn Shelton

Disciplina

320.975

Soggetti

Political culture -- Southern States

Regionalism -- Southern States

Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1951

Regionalism - Southern States

Political culture - Southern States

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States Local History

Electronic books.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword by John Shelton Reed; Acknowledgments; Part I: Southern-National Political Convergence; 1. The South in the Senate: Changing Patterns of Representation on Committees; 2. Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary South: Where Have all the Conservatives Gone?; 3. The Transformation of Southern Political Elites: Regionalism Among Party and PAC Contributors; 4. Party Sorting at the Grass Roots: Stable Partisans and Party-Changers Among Florida's Precinct Officials; 5. Consequences of Southern School Desegregation: Myth and Reality; Part II: The Continuing South

6. Dimensions of Southern Public Opinion on Prayer in Schools7. Evangelical Religion and Support for Social Issue Policies: An Examination of Regional Variation; 8. Searching for the Mind of the South in the Second Reconstruction; 9. Labor Money in Southern Elections: Continuation of an Old Trend; 10. The Militant Republican Right in North Carolina Elections: Legacy of the Old Politics of Race; Postscript; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Normal   0         false   false   false                             MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War II. Social, demographic, economic, and political changes have altered significantly the region long considered the nation's most distinctive. There is less agreement, however, about the extent to which the forces of nationalization have eroded the major elements of Southern distinctiveness. Although this volume does not purport to settle the debate on Southern pol