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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457513003321

Titolo

A paler shade of red [[electronic resource] ] : the 2008 presidential election in the South / / edited by Branwell DuBose Kapeluck, Laurence W. Moreland, and Robert P. Steed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, c2009

ISBN

1-61075-003-9

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 289 p. : ill., map

Altri autori (Persone)

KapeluckBranwell DuBose <1969->

MorelandLaurence W

SteedRobert P

Disciplina

324.973/0931

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 2008

Electronic books.

Southern States Politics and government 1951-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Southern elections, southern politics / Robert P. Steed and Laurence W. Moreland -- The setting and the nominating process. The continued convergence of demographics and issues / Scott E. Buchanan ; The 2008 presidential nomination process / John A. Clark -- Elections in the Deep South. Alabama : electoral continuity and racial voting / Patrick R. Cotter ; Georgia : where competitiveness came late / Charles S. Bullock III ; Louisiana : from political bellwether to Republican stronghold / Robert E. Hogan and Eunice H. McCarney ; Mississippi : Democrats fight for relevance in an increasingly Republican state / David A. Breaux and Stephen D. Shaffer ; South Carolina : a paler shade of red? / Cole Blease Graham -- Elections in the rim South. Arkansas : he's not one of (most of) us / Jay Barth, Janine A. Parry, and Todd G. Shields ; Florida : Obama gives GOP the blues / Jonathan Knuckey ; North Carolina : change and continuity in 2008 / Charles Prysby ; Tennessee : cracker barrel realignment / Ronald Keith Gaddie, with the assistance of Michael D. Jones ; Texas : after the Bush era / Brian Arbour and Mark McKenzie ; Virginia : the new math of blue Virginia / John J. McGlennon -- Don't whistle past Dixie yet / H. Gibbs Knotts.