Second verse, same as the first
Subtitle: the 2012 presidential election in the South
By: edited by Scott E. Buchanan and Branwell DuBose Kapeluck
Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781557286482
Subjects: Presidents; Election; Elections; History; Politics and government; Political science
Other titles: 2nd verse, same as the first :; 2012 presidential election in the South
Description: "A volume of essays covering the 2012 election as it played out in the eleven former states of the Confederacy. The essays are organized by state and emphasize the presidential campaign, but each state chapter also includes analysis on notable congressional races and important patterns at the state level. Interesting patterns in the South and their implications for the balance of power between the two major parties are analyzed. Additional chapters cover the issues that dominated voter decision making and the nomination process"--Based on publisher's description.
Notes: "The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics."

"The Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Southern politics and the 2012 presidential election / Branwell DuBose Kapeluck and Scott E. Buchanan; title: The setting and the nominating process. Demographic and issue cleavages in the southern electorate j/ Patrick R. Miller ; The 2012 presidential nomination process / John A. Clark; title: Elections in the deep south. Alabama : Republican dominance and Democrats fighting to survive / Shannon L. Bridgmon ; Georgia : even redder / Charles S. Bullock III ; Louisiana : for Republicans and Obama, second verse, same as the first / Robert E. Hogan and Joshua D. Hostetter ; Mississippi : Democrats struggle in an increasingly domainant Republican state / Stephen D. Shaffer and David A. Breaux ; South Carolina : "It's déjà vu all over again" / Cole Blease Graham and Scott E. Buchanan; title: Elections in the rim south. Arkansas : another anti-Obama aftershock / Janine A. Parry and Jay Barth ; Florida : sí, se puede! / Johathan Knuckey and Tyler Branz ; North Carolina : no longer federal red and state blue? / Charles Prysby ; Tennessee : Republican ascendency affirmed / J. David Woodard ; Texas : big red in the 2012 elections / Brian Arbour ; Virginia : Obama's unexpected firewall / John J. McGlennon; title: Conclusion : toward two-party competition in the south? / H. Gibbs Knotts.