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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Republican Party in Arkansas, 1920-1982
  name:
    name part: Hathorn, Billy Burton
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bayliss, Garland
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Dethloff, Henry C.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Gooch, Brison
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Hill, Larry
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Lang, Herbert H.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1983
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 2 volumes (ix, 602 leaves) : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: Throughout the twentieth century, Arkansas, like other southern states, has been dominated by the Democratic party. By 1952, however, Republicanism began to emerge in the South, especially in areas with relatively few blacks and in cities and suburbs. Arkansas was the last southern state to support a Republican presidential candidate, not joining the GOP resurgence at the national level until Richard Nixon's 1972 triumph. Yet, the state broke party ranks in 1966 and 1968, electing transplanted New Yorker Winthrop Rockefeller as the first Republican governor since Reconstruction. Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt also captured the Third District congressional seat in northwestern Arkansas and has held the position without interruption since 1967. In 1978, Republican Edwin R. Bethune won the Second District seat held earlier by the legendary Wilbur Mills. Bethune was re-elected in 1980 and 1982. In 1980, Ronald Reagan carried Arkansas by a 5,123-vote plurality but lost Bethune's district. Moreover, Republican Frank White, spurred by cracks in the Democratic armor, toppled the heavily-favored Democratic Governor William "Bill" Clinton. Clinton became the second Arkansas governor in twenty-six years to be denied re-election, but he regained the position from White in 1982. Until the Rockefeller era, the Arkansas GOP remained in the hands of a small cadre of conservatives, such as veteran National Committeeman Wallace Townsend. After Rockefeller became national committeeman in 1961, he gradually gained control of the party and began molding it into a more moderate political organization. In formulating his successful coalition, Rockefeller, almost alone among southern Republicans, turned to black and moderate white voters. This study traces the development of the Arkansas GOP through the twentieth century, with emphasis on the last sixty-two years. The study focuses on political and related aspects of the two-party movement in a previously one-party bastion. The study a…
  note: "Major subject: American History."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1983
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 548-558).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ar
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Republican Party (Ark.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: American History
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-410084
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 860418
    record change date: 20220104090340.0
    record identifier: in00000412718
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng