End of Southern Exceptionalism - Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

Klappentext The shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained! by scholars and journalists! as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. Here! the authors refute that view: The true story! they argue! is instead one of dramatic class reversal! beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake. Zusammenfassung The shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained! by scholars and journalists! as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. Here! the authors refute that view: The true story! they argue! is instead one of dramatic class reversal! beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.

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• Authors: Richard Johnston, Byron E Johnston Shafer, Byron E. Shafer, Byron E. Johnston Shafer, Shafer Byron E.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9780674032491
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03249-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Politics & government, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Politics and government