Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1. The South and American Party Factionalism -- Factions and Factionalism -- American Party Factionalism Before the New Deal -- The New Deal, a Period of Transition -- American Party Factionalism After the New Deal -- The Republicans: Conservative Dominance -- Democratic Party Factionalism in the 1990s: A Complex Pattern -- Implications -- 2. The Old Southern Democracy and Its Erosion, 1876 to 1965 -- Politics in the Antebellum South: Honor and Slavery -- Reconstruction and Restoration: The Forging of the Solid South, 1860 to 1896 -- The Solid South at High Tide, 1896 to 1948 -- The Civil Rights Movement and the Disintegration of the One-Party South, 1948 to 1965 -- 3. The Democrats' Presidential Weakness in the South, 1968 to 1988 -- The Years of Realignment, 1968 and 1972 -- Analysis of a Realignment -- The South and the Democrats' Presidential Nominating Process Since 1968 -- Jimmy Carter, the Exceptional Case -- The Super Tuesday Debacle in 1988 -- Conclusion: Waiting for Recession? -- 4. Southern Democrats in the U.S. Congress -- The House -- The Rise and Fall of the "Old South" in the House -- Why Are They Still Democrats? -- |