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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809137603321

Autore

Cotter Patrick R

Titolo

After Wallace : the 1986 contest for governor and political change in Alabama / / Patrick R. Cotter and James Glen Stovall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8173-8727-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StovallJames Glen

Disciplina

324.9761/063

Soggetti

Governors - Alabama - Election - History - 20th century

Elections - Alabama - History - 20th century

Political campaigns - Alabama - History - 20th century

Social change - Alabama - History - 20th century

Alabama Politics and government 1951-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The dominance of George Wallace -- Wallace's final exit -- The Wallace legacy -- The 1986 primary election -- Runoff -- Challenge -- Democratic aftermath -- The general election -- Consequences -- Explanations -- Appendix A: Survey methodology -- Appendix B: Election results.

Sommario/riassunto

All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness. With the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence, Alabama also experienced a wave of partisan realignment. A once solidly Democratic South was undergoing a tectonic political shift as white voters in l