LEADER 03715nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910783364103321 005 20230523181943.0 010 $a0-19-773402-2 010 $a1-280-44231-X 010 $a0-19-802477-0 010 $a1-4237-4223-0 010 $a1-60129-962-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000028720 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24085032 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000249018 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11214058 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249018 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10204851 035 $a(PQKB)11304004 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL272718 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10087187 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44231 035 $a(OCoLC)935260855 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC272718 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000028720 100 $a19930817d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSouthern Democrats /$fNicol C. Rae 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) $ctables 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-19-508708-9 311 0 $a0-19-508709-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index. 330 $aThis text analyzes southern Democrats as a force in American politics since the 1960's. Drawing on interviews with many southern politicians, it traces the history of the Democratic Party in the South from the erosion of their national influence in the early 1960's to Clinton's election in 1992. 330 $bFrom the election of Jimmy Carter to the wide defection of Democrats in the South to the Republican ticket in the Reagan/Bush years, Southern Democrats have played a crucial role in recent American national politics. With the 1992 election of President Clinton, they once again occupy a place at the centre of the American political stage. A timely examination of this important phenomenon in American politics, Southern Democrats traces the history of this influential regional faction and gauges the extent and nature of Southern Democratic influence in congressional and presidential politics today. Nicol Rae argues that the Southern Democrats remain a distinctive faction despite the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which initiated the end of the social and economic system that had previously bound them together. The only surviving political faction based on regional--rather than ideological--concerns, they have nevertheless evolved from being a deviant element within the party to coming closer to the national Democratic norm which is most apparent in civil rights issues. Drawing on interviews with many southern politicians and memoirs and accounts of past campaigns, Rae deals with the success of Southern Democrat and Democratic Leadership Council leader Bill Clinton in winning the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination, and reveals the changing role of Southern Democrats in internal party politics and national elections. He concludes with an overall assessment of the present and future state of this important southern wing of the Democratic party. 606 $aPolitical parties$zUnited States 607 $aSouthern States$xPolitics and government$y1951- 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989- 615 0$aPolitical parties 676 $a324.275/06 700 $aRae$b Nicol C$01572207 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783364103321 996 $aSouthern Democrats$93846937 997 $aUNINA