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

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

Published in 1898, The Solid South is a political and historical analysis of the post-Civil War Southern political scene. Emory Speer examines the reasons why t

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