03749nam 22005293 450 991013707360332120180821135035.00-472-12211-810.3998/mpub.5112547(CKB)3710000000834045(MiAaPQ)EBC4649596(OCoLC)957138026(MdBmJHUP)muse54284(MiU)10.3998/mpub.5112547(EXLCZ)99371000000083404520160418d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierRemaking the Democratic Party Lyndon B. Johnson as a native-son presidential candidate /Hanes Walton, Jr., Pearl K. Ford Dowe, and Josephine A.V. AllenAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (417 pages)0-472-11994-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Linkages: The Other Native-Son Presidential Case Studies -- 2. Remaking -- Part I: Epistemology and the Native-Son Candidate -- 3. Theory -- 4. Literature: Testing for the Localism Variable in the Non-South -- 5. Methodology -- Part II: The Political Context of a Native-Son Candidate -- 6. The Texas Electorate -- 7. The African American and Latino Electorates -- Part III: The Making of a Native-Son Candidate -- 8. The Congressional Vote for Johnson -- 9. The Senatorial Vote for Johnson -- Part IV: The Southern Native-Son Presidential Candidate.10. The Presidential Vote for Johnson -- 11. Johnson's Postpresidential Influence: The 1968 Presidential Election in Texas for Vice President Humphrey -- 12. The Regional Vote: Johnson, Garner, Carter, Bentsen, Clinton, and Gore -- Part V: The Native Son and the Democratic Party -- 13. The LBJ-Remade Democratic Party in Presidential Elections: From Remaking to Reimaging -- Appendix: The Election Data-A Research Note -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.A continuation of Hanes Walton Jr.'s work on Southern Democratic presidents, Remaking the Democratic Party analyzes the congressional and presidential elections of Lyndon Baines Johnson. This study builds upon the general theory of the native-son phenomenon to demonstrate that a Southern native-son can win the presidency without the localism evident in the elections of Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Although ridiculed by contemporaries for his apparent lack of control over formal party politics and the national committee, Johnson excelled at leading the Democratic Party's policy agenda. While a senator and as president, Johnson advocated for-and secured-liberal social welfare and civil rights legislation, forcing the party to break with its Southern tradition of elitism, conservatism, and white supremacy. In a way, Johnson set the terms for the continuing partisan battle because, by countering the Democrats' new ideology, the Republican Party also underwent a transformation.Lyndon B. Johnson as a native-son presidential candidatePolitical cultureSouthern StatesPresidentsUnited StatesElection, 1964United StatesPolitics and government1963-1969Political culturePresidentsElection, 1964.324.973/0923Walton Hanes1941-460098Allen Josephine A. V.Ford Pearl K.1972-Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910137073603321Remaking the Democratic Party2895578UNINA