The southern strategy revisited
Subtitle: Republican top-down advancement in the South
By: Joseph A. Aistrup.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Elections -- Southern States; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Description: The 1994 elections represented a watershed year for southern Republicans. For the first time since Reconstruction, they gained control of a majority of national seats and governorships. Yet, despite these impressive gains, southern Republicans control only three of twenty-two state legislative chambers and 37 percent of state legislative seats. Joseph A.

Aistrup addresses why this divergence between the national and subnational levels persists even after GOP national landslides in 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1994.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-285) and index.