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Author | : Devin Caughey |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691184003 |
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During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in national politics. In this compelling book, Devin Caughey provides an entirely new understanding of electoral competition and national representation in this exclusionary one-party enclave. Challenging the notion that the Democratic Party’s political monopoly inhibited competition and served only the Southern elite, he demonstrates how Democratic primaries—even as they excluded African Americans—provided forums for ordinary whites to press their interests. Focusing on politics during and after the New Deal, Caughey shows that congressional primary elections effectively substituted for partisan competition, in part because the spillover from national party conflict helped compensate for the informational deficits of elections without party labels. Caughey draws on a broad range of historical and quantitative evidence, including archival materials, primary election returns, congressional voting records, and hundreds of early public opinion polls that illuminate ideological patterns in the Southern public. Defying the received wisdom, this evidence reveals that members of Congress from the one-party South were no less responsive to their electorates than members from states with true partisan competition. Reinterpreting a critical period in American history, The Unsolid South reshapes our understanding of the role of parties in democratic theory and sheds critical new light on electoral politics in authoritarian regimes.
Author | : Devin Caughey |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691181802 |
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During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in national politics. In this compelling book, Devin Caughey provides an entirely new understanding of electoral competition and national representation in this exclusionary one-party enclave. Challenging the notion that the Democratic Party’s political monopoly inhibited competition and served only the Southern elite, he demonstrates how Democratic primaries—even as they excluded African Americans—provided forums for ordinary whites to press their interests. Focusing on politics during and after the New Deal, Caughey shows that congressional primary elections effectively substituted for partisan competition, in part because the spillover from national party conflict helped compensate for the informational deficits of elections without party labels. Caughey draws on a broad range of historical and quantitative evidence, including archival materials, primary election returns, congressional voting records, and hundreds of early public opinion polls that illuminate ideological patterns in the Southern public. Defying the received wisdom, this evidence reveals that members of Congress from the one-party South were no less responsive to their electorates than members from states with true partisan competition. Reinterpreting a critical period in American history, The Unsolid South reshapes our understanding of the role of parties in democratic theory and sheds critical new light on electoral politics in authoritarian regimes.
Author | : HUBERT R. FOWLER |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dewey W. Grantham |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0813148723 |
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Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system -- long referred to as the Solid South -- embodied a distinctive regional culture and was perpetuated through an undemocratic distribution of power and a structure based on disfranchisement, malapportioned legislatures, and one-party politics. It was the mechanism that determined who would govern in the states and localities, and in national politics it was the means through which the South's politicians defended their region's special interests and political autonomy. The history of this remarkable institution can be traced in the gradual rise, long persistence, and ultimate decline of the Democratic Party dominance in the land below the Potomac and the Ohio. This is the story that Dewey W. Grantham tells in his fresh and authoritative account of the South's modern political experience. The distillation of many years of research and reflection, is both a synthesis of the extensive literature on politics in the recent South and a challenging reinterpretation of the region's political history.
Author | : Boris Heersink |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107158435 |
Download Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.
Author | : Dewey W. Grantham |
Publisher | : Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system -- long referred to as the Solid South -- embodied a distinctive regional culture and was perpetuated through an undemocratic distribution of power and a structure based on disfranchisement, malapportioned legislatures, and one-party politics. It was the mechanism that determined who would govern in the states and localities, and in national politics it was the means through which the South's politicians defended their region's special interests and political au ...
Author | : Jacob S. Hacker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316516369 |
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Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.
Author | : Glenn Feldman |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817317937 |
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The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the “Solid South” for the Democratic Party and how that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II. Relying on a sophisticated analysis of secondary research—as well as a wealth of deep research in primary sources such as letters, diaries, interviews, court cases, newspapers, and other archival materials—Glenn Feldman argues in The Irony of the Solid South that the history of the solid Democratic south is actually marked by several ironies that involve a concern with the fundamental nature of southern society and culture and the central place that race and allied types of cultural conservatism have played in ensuring regional distinctiveness and continuity across time and various partisan labels. Along the way, this account has much to say about the quality and nature of the New Deal in Dixie, southern liberalism, and its fatal shortcomings. Feldman focuses primarily on Alabama and race but also considers at length circumstances in the other southern states as well as insights into the uses of emotional issues other than race that have been used time and again to distract whites from their economic and material interests. Feldman explains how conservative political forces (Bourbon Democrats, Dixiecrats, Wallace, independents, and eventually the modern GOP) ingeniously fused white supremacy with economic conservatism based on the common glue of animus to the federal government. A second great melding is exposed, one that joined economic fundamentalism to the religious kind along the shared axis of antidemocratic impulses. Feldman’s study has much to say about southern and American conservatism, the enduring power of cultural and emotional issues, and the modern south’s path to becoming solidly Republican.
Author | : Louisiana. State Sovereignty Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1963* |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Miriam Hansen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520265599 |
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