The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of

Given the success of the all southern 1992 Clinton/Gore ticket, Southern Democrats is sure to command a wide audience of scholars and students of political scie

Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics in the nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the

Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system—long referred to as the

In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as thei