The Fall of Kentucky's Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics Since the New Deal

by George G Humphreys and George G. Humphreys

This in-depth study offers a new examination of a region that is often overlooked in political histories of the Bluegrass State. George G. Humphreys traces the arc of politics in western Kentucky from avid support of the Democratic Party to its present-day Republican identity. He demonstrates that, despite its relative geographic isolation, the counties west of the eastern boundary of Breckinridge County down to the Tennessee state line...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813182336
• ISBN13: 9780813182339
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary