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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 of data, the authors demonstrate that race was, and is, the chief force behind political change in the region. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199873838 0199873836 0199980012 9780199980017 |