The Rise of Southern Republicans
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: April 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780674007284
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political structure & processes; Southern States; Politics / Current Events; Political Process - Elections; Political Science; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Politics/International Relations; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Politics and government; Government - U.S. Government; Political Process - Political Parties; 1951-; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-
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.