Painting Dixie red
Subtitle: when, where, why, and how the South became Republican
By: edited by Glenn Feldman
Series: New perspectives on the history of the South
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780813036847
Subjects: Politics and government; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: has the south become republican? / Glenn Feldman; title: Voting for God and the GOP: the role of evangelical religion in the emergence of the Republican South / Daniel K. Williams; title: "Out-democratin' the democrats": religious colleges and the rise of the Republican Party in the South: a case study / Barclay Key; title: With god on our side: moral and religious issues, southern culture, and Republican realignment in the South / Frederick V. Slocum; title: A suburban story: the rise of Republicanism in postwar Georgia, 1948-1980 / Tim Boyd; title: Virginia's northern strategy: southern segregationists and the route to national conservatism / George Lewis; title: Kennedyphobia and the rise of Republicans in Northwest Louisiana, 1960-1962 / J. Eric Pardue; title: Race, grassroots activism, and the evolution of the Republican right in South Carolina, 1952-1974 / John W. White; title: A southern road less traveled: the 1966 gubernatorial election and (Winthrop) Rockefeller Republicanism in Arkansas / John A. Kirk; title: "Gun cotton": southern industrialists, international trade, and the Republican Party in the 1950s / Katherine Rye Jewell; title: The first southern strategy: the Taft and the Dewey/Eisenhower factions in the GOP / Michael Bowen; title: The black cabinet: economic civil rights in the Nixon Administration / Leah M. Wright; title: M. E. Bradford, the Reagan right, and the resurgence of Confederate nationalism / Fred Arthur Bailey; title: Conclusion: America's appointment with destiny: a cautionary tale / Glenn Feldman.