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The disappearing South? : studies in regional change and continuity
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Steed, Robert P.
- Conference Name:
- Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics (5th : 1986 : Charleston, S.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Southern States.
- Regionalism--Southern States.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1951.
- Regionalism.
- Political culture.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1951-.
- Southern States.
- Local Subjects:
- Political culture--Southern States.
- Regionalism--Southern States.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1951.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War II. Social, demographic, economic, and political changes have altered significantly the region long considered the nation's most distinctive. There is less agreement, however, about the extent to which the forces of nationalization have eroded the major elements of Southern distinctiveness. Although this volume does not purport to settle the debate on Southern pol
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword by John Shelton Reed; Acknowledgments; Part I: Southern-National Political Convergence; 1. The South in the Senate: Changing Patterns of Representation on Committees; 2. Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary South: Where Have all the Conservatives Gone?; 3. The Transformation of Southern Political Elites: Regionalism Among Party and PAC Contributors; 4. Party Sorting at the Grass Roots: Stable Partisans and Party-Changers Among Florida's Precinct Officials; 5. Consequences of Southern School Desegregation: Myth and Reality; Part II: The Continuing South
- 6. Dimensions of Southern Public Opinion on Prayer in Schools7. Evangelical Religion and Support for Social Issue Policies: An Examination of Regional Variation; 8. Searching for the Mind of the South in the Second Reconstruction; 9. Labor Money in Southern Elections: Continuation of an Old Trend; 10. The Militant Republican Right in North Carolina Elections: Legacy of the Old Politics of Race; Postscript; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-14108-8
- OCLC:
- 853363020
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