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Zusatztext "Mickey's work should be valued by students of the modern American South. Like recent historians who are arguably the new gold standards for studying this subject! he reveals fresh ways of understanding political change in the Deep South." ---Anthony B. Newkirk! Arkansas Review Informationen zum Autor Robert Mickey is associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan. Klappentext "In this remarkable book, Mickey focuses on Southern politics after the great public reversal of black disenfranchisement--and boldly compares that politics to authoritarianism. He grounds his compelling claims and narratives in an exceptionally confident handling of evidence, resulting in a major milestone in American political science. This vivid and profoundly illuminating book is certain to change views not just of Southern politics, but of the country we have been--and the national democracy we have become." --Rick Valelly, Swarthmore College "This is an impressive account of political change in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Georgia, from one-party authoritarian regimes in the 1890s to democracies in the 1970s. Mickey's analyses of the constellation of forces in each state are powerful. Paths out of Dixie will be a revelation to political scientists." --Amy Bridges, University of California, San Diego "This is one of the most significant books on this critical region to appear in decades. Mickey situates this work in the comparative democratization literature and analyzes political accommodation to civil rights from the perspective of elites and parties. There is nothing else quite like it." --Elizabeth Sanders, Cornell University Zusammenfassung The transformation of the American South - from authoritarian to democratic rule - is the most important political development since World War II. This title illuminates this sea change by analyzing the democratization experiences of Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and Tables ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Part One: Deep South Enclaves! 1890-1940 1 CHAPTER ONE Southern Political Development in Comparative Perspective 3 CHAPTER TWO The Founding and Maintenance of Southern Enclaves! 1890-1940 33 CHAPTER THREE Deep South Enclaves on the Eve of the Transition 64 Part Two: The Transition Begins! 1944-48 93 CHAPTER FOUR Suffrage Restriction under Attack! 1944-47 95 CHAPTER FIVE Driven from the House of Their Fathers Southern Enclaves and the National Party! 1947-48 131 Part Three: The Clouds Darken! 1950-63 171 PROLOGUE "No Solution Offers Except Coercion" Brown! Massive Resistance! and Campus Crises! 1950-63 173 CHAPTER SIX "No Task for the Amateur or Hothead" Mississippi and the Battle of Oxford 190 CHAPTER SEVEN "Integration with Dignity" South Carolina Navigates the Clemson Crisis 215 CHAPTER EIGHT "No! Not One" Georgia's Massive Resistance and the Crisis at Athens 240 Part Four: Modes of Democratization and Their Legacies since 1964 257 CHAPTER NINE The Deathblows to Authoritarian Rule The Civil and Voting Rights Acts and National Party Reform! 1964-72 259 CHAPTER TEN Harnessing the Revolution? Three Paths Out of Dixie 281 CHAPTER ELEVEN Legacies and Lessons of the Democratized South 335 Notes 355 Index 531 ...
