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A paler shade of red : the 2008 presidential election in the South / edited by Branwell DuBose Kapeluck, Laurence W. Moreland, and Robert P. Steed.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--Election--2008.
- Presidents.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1951-.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 289 p. : ill., map.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The scholars included in A Paler Shade of Red cover the 2008 presidential election with detailed, state-by-state analyses of how the presidential election, from the nomination struggle through the casting of votes in November, played out in the South.
- Contents:
- Southern elections, southern politics / Robert P. Steed and Laurence W. Moreland
- The setting and the nominating process. The continued convergence of demographics and issues / Scott E. Buchanan ; The 2008 presidential nomination process / John A. Clark
- Elections in the Deep South. Alabama : electoral continuity and racial voting / Patrick R. Cotter ; Georgia : where competitiveness came late / Charles S. Bullock III ; Louisiana : from political bellwether to Republican stronghold / Robert E. Hogan and Eunice H. McCarney ; Mississippi : Democrats fight for relevance in an increasingly Republican state / David A. Breaux and Stephen D. Shaffer ; South Carolina : a paler shade of red? / Cole Blease Graham
- Elections in the rim South. Arkansas : he's not one of (most of) us / Jay Barth, Janine A. Parry, and Todd G. Shields ; Florida : Obama gives GOP the blues / Jonathan Knuckey ; North Carolina : change and continuity in 2008 / Charles Prysby ; Tennessee : cracker barrel realignment / Ronald Keith Gaddie, with the assistance of Michael D. Jones ; Texas : after the Bush era / Brian Arbour and Mark McKenzie ; Virginia : the new math of blue Virginia / John J. McGlennon
- Don't whistle past Dixie yet / H. Gibbs Knotts.
- Notes:
- Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-277) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-003-9
- OCLC:
- 769114785
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