The Rise of Southern Republicans
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: September 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780674012486
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Political parties; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Politics/International Relations; Political Process - Political Parties; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Political History; Political Process - Elections
First sentence: In 1964 Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a tenacious champion of unreconstructed southern conservatism, abandoned the Democratic party to become the first Republican senator from the Deep South in the twentieth century.