Painting Dixie Red

by Feldman, Glenn

• ISBN13: 9780813036847
• ISBN10: 0813036844
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-02
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

Has The South, once the "Solid South" of the Democratic Party, truly become an unassailable Republican stronghold? If so, does the blame lie with President Johnson, or is it a result of other, color-blind factors? Moreover, what are the implications for the U.S. body politic? This debate will not be resolved any time soon. It is likely to dominate scholarship and inquiry in politics and culture for decades.

Author Biography

Glenn Feldman, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama and Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Has the South Become Republican?	p. 1
Religion and Partisan Realignment
Voting for God and the GOP: The Role of Evangelical Religion in the Emergence of the Republican South	p. 21
"Out-Democratin the Democrats": Religious Colleges and the Rise of the Republican Party in the South-A Case Study	p. 38
With God on Our Side: Moral and Religious Issues, Southern Culture, and Republican Realignment in the South	p. 55
State, Section, Suburb, and Race
A Suburban Story: The Rise of Republicanism in Postwar Georgia, 1948-1980	p. 79
Virginia's Northern Strategy: Southern Segregationists and the Route to National Conservatism	p. 98
Kennedyphobia and the Rise of Republicans in Northwest Louisiana, 1960-1962	p. 122
Race, Grassroots Activism, and the Evolution of the Republican Right in South Carolina, 1952-1974	p. 138
A Southern Road Less Traveled: The 1966 Gubernatorial Election and (Winthrop) Rockefeller Republicanism in Arkansas	p. 172
Economics, Faction, and the Neo-Confederacy
"Gun Cotton": Southern Industrialists, International Trade, and the Republican Party in the 1950s	p. 201
The First Southern Strategy: The Taft and the Dewey/Eisenhower Factions in the GOP	p. 220
The Black Cabinet: Economic Civil Rights in the Nixon Administration	p. 240
M. E. Bradford, the Reagan Right, and the Resurgence of Confederate Nationalism	p. 291
Conclusion: America's Appointment with Destiny?A Cautionary Tale	p. 314
List of Contributors	p. 361
Index	p. 363
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