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Southern Parties and Elections

Southern Parties and Elections

Studies in Regional Political Change

Edited by Robert P. Steed, Laurence W. Moreland and Tod A. Baker

Contributions by R. Bruce Anderson, Jay Barth, Charles S. Bullock, Patrick R. Cotter, Thomas F. Eamon, Samuel H. Fisher III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Layne Hoppe, John J. Hotaling, Clifton McCleskey, Jon L. Mills, Richard Nadeau, Richard K. Scher, Harold W. Stanley, David E. Sturrock and Felita T. Williams

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Clarifies the recent and dramatic development of party competition in the South

Southern politics has changed dramatically during the past half century. While new developments have touched virtually every aspect of the region's politics, change has been especially marked in the South's political party and electoral systems. Southern Parties and Elections explores the contemporary developments in party realignment and examines the relationship between regional party change and electoral behavior and the larger patterns in national politics.

The collection's first group of essays examines some of the key legal issues in contemporary southern politics: the legal battle over majority-minority districting, the electoral consequences of such districting, the practice-fairly widespread in the South-of separating presidential elections from state and local elections, and the connections between the electorate and party change.

The second section of essays focuses on nominations, elections, and partisan developments in the South, including the recent surge of voter participation in southern Republican primaries, the comparative importance of the South and selected states with large blocks of electoral votes in presidential election outcomes, and the southern contribution to patterns of voting in Congress. The final two chapters examine changes in southern state legislatures-one a case study of the Virginia General Assembly and the other an analysis of state legislatures in the region as a whole.

Collectively these essays add important pieces to the enduring puzzle of "southern politics."

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Introduction: Changing Electoral and Party Politics in the South

Part One: The Electoral Environment

1. Voting Rights in the South After Shaw and Miller : The End of Racial Fairness?

2. Voter Turnout and Candidate Participation: Effects of Affirmative Action Districting

3. The Impact of Election Timing on Republican Trickle-Down in the South

4. Changes in the Composition of Political Activists, 1952–1992

5. Age and Partisanship, 1952–1992

Part Two: Nominations, Elections, and Partisan Developments

6. Out of the Phone Booths: Republican Primaries in the Deep South

7. Dixie Versus the Nonsouthern Megastates in American Presidential Politics

8. Increasing Liberalism Among Southern Members of Congress, 1970–1990, with an Analysis of the 1994 Congressional Elections

9. Representation and Party in the Virginia General Assembly Since the Civil Rights and Reapportionment Revolutions

10. Electoral Competition and Southern State Legislatures: The Dynamics of Change

Conclusion: Southern Party and Electoral Politics in the 1990s: Change or Continuity?

Notes

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Contributors

Index

Robert P. Steed is a professor of political science at the Citadel and co-editor of the "Presidential Election in the South" series that began in 1984 through the Citadel Project on the South.

John A. Clark is chair of and a professor in the Department of political science at Western Michigan University. He is co-editor of Southern Political Party Activists, and has authored or coauthored more than twenty book chapters and articles in scholarly journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Political Research Quarterly.

Lewis Bowman is a former professor of political science at the University of South Florida.

Charles D. Hadley is University Research Professor Emeritus and former chair, Department of Political Science at the University of New Orleans. He is co-author of Political Parties and Political Issues: Patterns of Differentiation Since the New Deal and Transformations of the American Party System: Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s.

Patrick R. Cotter is a professor of Political Science at The University of Alabama. He is co–editor of the Alabama Political Almanac and Disconnected: Public Opinion and Politics in Alabama.

James Glen Stovall is the Edward J. Meeman Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the University of Tennesee Knoxville. With Patrick R. Cotter, he is coeditor of the Alabama Political Almanac and Disconnected.

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