Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3518-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Originally published in 1975. This is a history of southern political life since the New Deal and World War II, encompassing a crucial epoch: an attempted Second Reconstruction of the South. The authors focus on the electoral response to candidates and issues. The authors contend that, despite the nationalizing and homogenizing forces that eroded much of the South's distinctiveness during the postwar years, the region's historical legacy perpetuated its distinctive patterns of cultural and political life. Further, the authors contend that despite the virtual destruction of the South's four inherited institutions of political sectionalism during the years of the Second Reconstruction—disenfranchisement, malapportionment, a one-party system, and de jure racial segregation—the new southern politics maintained a deep racial division that has militated against class coalitions, especially across racial lines, and has permitted government by relatively insulated elites.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartley, Numan

Graham, Hugh Davis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Tables
Preface
Chapter 1. The American Party Systems and the South
Chapter 2. The Populist-New Deal Legacy: One-Party Politics in the Postwar Decade
Chapter 3. One-Party State Politics and the Impact of Desegregation
Chapter 4. The Emergence of Two-Party Politics: Republicanism in the New South
Chapter 5. The Politics of Turmoil
Chapter 6. The Ambiguous Resurgence of the New South
Chapter 7. The 1972 Elections
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Note on Methodology and Data Sources
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Graham, Hugh Davis
Hugh Davis Graham was an American historian and sociologist. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, where he served as director of the Institute of Southern History and was the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University.

Bartley, Numan
Numan V. Bartley is E. Merton Coulter Professor of History emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s. Hugh D. Graham was dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Numan V. Bartley is E. Merton Coulter Professor of History emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s. Hugh D. Graham was dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Hugh Davis Graham was an American historian and sociologist. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, where he served as director of the Institute of Southern History and was the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University.