The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

by Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston

Book Overview

The transformation of Southern politics after World War II changed thepolitical life not just of this distinctive region, but of the entire nation.Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance fromDemocratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars andjournalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In thismyth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute thatview, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic bookSouthern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic classreversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019342
• ISBN13: 9780674019348
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"