The state of disunion
Subtitle: regional sources of modern American partisanship
By: Nicole Mellow.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780801888120; 9780801888168
Subjects: Political parties -- United States; Political culture -- United States; Political participation -- United States; Opposition (Political science) -- United States; Divided government -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Recasting region; title: Regime change: from the new deal state to the republican revolution; title: Sun belt rising: globalization and regional changes on trade policy; title: Change comes to the cotton belt: race, region, and the politics of welfare policy; title: The political resurrection of the Bible belt: religion, modernization, and the intensification of abortion politics; title: A house divided: the geography of parties and conflict.