Painting Dixie Red [electronic resource] : When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican /
Feldman, Glenn.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2011.
Has the South, once the ""Solid South"" of the Democratic Party, truly become an unassailable Republican stronghold? If so, when, where, why, and how did this seismic change occur? Moreover, what are the implications for the U.S. body politic?. Painting Dixie Red is the first volume to grapple with these difficult yet critical questions. In this fascinating and timely collection, a distinguished group of scholars engages in an enlightening debate. Some make the case that the South has become Republican, and some contend that it has not. Some outline the region's exceptionalism, and some reject
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Has the South, once the ""Solid South"" of the Democratic Party, truly become an unassailable Republican stronghold? If so, when, where, why, and how did this seismic change occur? Moreover, what are the implications for the U.S. body politic?. Painting Dixie Red is the first volume to grapple with these difficult yet critical questions. In this fascinating and timely collection, a distinguished group of scholars engages in an enlightening debate. Some make the case that the South has become Republican, and some contend that it has not. Some outline the region's exceptionalism, and some reject
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: has the south become republican? / Glenn Feldman -- Voting for God and the GOP: the role of evangelical religion in the emergence of the Republican South / Daniel K. Williams -- "Out-democratin' the democrats": religious colleges and the rise of the Republican Party in the South: a case study / Barclay Key -- With god on our side: moral and religious issues, southern culture, and Republican realignment in the South / Frederick V. Slocum -- A suburban story: the rise of Republicanism in postwar Georgia, 1948-1980 / Tim Boyd -- Virginia's northern strategy: southern segregationists and the route to national conservatism / George Lewis -- Kennedyphobia and the rise of Republicans in Northwest Louisiana, 1960-1962 / J. Eric Pardue -- Race, grassroots activism, and the evolution of the Republican right in South Carolina, 1952-1974 / John W. White -- A southern road less traveled: the 1966 gubernatorial election and (Winthrop) Rockefeller Republicanism in Arkansas / John A. Kirk -- "Gun cotton": southern industrialists, international trade, and the Republican Party in the 1950s / Katherine Rye Jewell -- The first southern strategy: the Taft and the Dewey/Eisenhower factions in the GOP / Michael Bowen -- The black cabinet: economic civil rights in the Nixon Administration / Leah M. Wright -- M. E. Bradford, the Reagan right, and the resurgence of Confederate nationalism / Fred Arthur Bailey -- Conclusion: America's appointment with destiny: a cautionary tale / Glenn Feldman.
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