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The rational southerner : black mobilization, republican growth, and the partisan transformation of the American south /

What drove the transformation of post-World War II politics in the South? In The Rational Southerner, M.V. Hood, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris develop a theory of relative advantage to explain why whites fled the Democratic Party and what propelled black political mobilization. Collating decades...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hood, M. V.
Other Authors: Kidd, Quentin, Morris, Irwin L. (Irwin Lester), 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A half-century of political change in the south
  • The strategic dynamics of southern political change
  • Relative advantage in action: case studies in the evolution of republican state parties in the south
  • Putting relative advantage to the test: state-level republican growth in the modern American south
  • Relative advantage and republican growth at the substate level
  • An examination of the theory of relative advantage at the individual level
  • Relative advantage in a post-VRA world: black voter registration in the modern south
  • Summary and concluding thoughts: disintegration of the solid south.