Tar heel politics 2000 / Paul Luebke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luebke, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elections--North Carolina.

Elections.

Political parties--North Carolina.

Political parties.

North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering an insightful analysis of North Carolina political trends and personalities, Paul Luebke moves beyond the usual labels of Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal. In Tar Heel Politics 2000, he argues that North Carolina's real political battle is between two factions of the state's political and economic elite: modernizers and traditionalists. Modernizers draw their strength from the bankers, developers, news media, and other urban interests that support growth, he says. Traditionalists, in contrast, are rooted in small-town North Carolina and fundamentalist Protestantism, tied to agriculture and low-wage industries and threatened by growth and social change. Both modernizers and traditionalists are linked with politicians who represent their interests. An updated and revised version of Luebke's Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities (1990), Tar Heel Politics 2000 highlights the resurgence of the southern Republican Party for the first time in a century and discusses a number of significant changes that have occurred over the last decade. These include the institutionalization of a viable two-party system in the General Assembly, the further shift of native-born whites throughout the South into the Republican voting column, and ideological conflict in North Carolina that parallels to some extent the post-1994 battles between the Republican Congress and the Clinton White House. In addition, the book provides a detailed analysis of the political appeal of Senator Jesse Helms and draws on Luebke's insights as a member of the North Carolina State House since 1991.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; The Heritage of the Democratic Party Elite; Competing Ideals in North Carolina Politics; The General Assembly: Two-Party Ideological Conflict; A Socioeconomic Portrait of North Carolina; The Politics of Economic Development; Organized Labor: Still Not a Major Player; Racial and Ethnic Politics: The Multicoloring of North Carolina; Tar Heel Politics 1984 and 1990: Why Helms Beat Hunt and Gantt; The Rise of the Republicans and the Decline of the Democrats; The Future of North Carolina Politics; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890871701

9780807889329

0807889326

OCLC:

70763386