The Rational Southerner: Black Mobilization, Republican Growth, and the Partisan Transformation of the American South

by M.V. Hood III, Irwin L. Morris, Quentin Kidd

Book Overview

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States. The once Solid-meaning Democratic-South is now overwhelmingly Republican, and long-disenfranchised African Americans vote at levels comparable to those of whites. In The Rational Southerner, M.V. Hood III, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris argue that local strategic dynamics played a decisive and underappreciated role in both the development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199377642
• ISBN13: 9780199377640
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"