Unhyphenated America in Transition : Political Geography, Ethnic Identity, and the Unique Partisan Realignment of Appalachia and the Upper South.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arbour, Brian.

Series:

The de Gruyter Series in American Political Geography Series

The de Gruyter Series in American Political Geography Series ; v.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appalachian Region.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

The upper South - starting in the Appalachian Mountains and stretching west across the Ohio and Tennessee River Valleys and into Arkansas - has its own culture and history distinct from the Deep South.It also has its own distinct political realignment that has pushed the region toward the right starting in the mid-1990s.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Chapter 1 Who and What are the Unhyphenated?

1 Who and What are the Unhyphenated?

2 The Characteristics of the Unhyphenated

2.1 Public Opinion Data

3 A Study of Geography, Not Identity

4 Polarization and Contemporary Politics

4.1 Geographic Polarization

4.2 Rural Voting

4.3 Affective Polarization

5 The Argument of the Book

6 A Southern Realignment, but Not the Southern Realignment

Chapter 2 A Tale of Two Republican Realignments: Why the Realignment of Unhyphenated America is Different from the Southern Realignment

1 The Southern Republican Realignment

1.1 Race and Realignment

1.2 Economic Growth and Realignment

2 Why Race and Economic Growth Do Not Explain the Shift of Unhyphenated America

3 Changing Issue Salience in Twenty-First-Century Politics

4 Ideological Polarization and Twenty-First-Century Politics

5 Testing These Claims

Chapter 3 Presidential Realignment in Unhyphenated America

1 The Republican Shift in Unhyphenated America

2 The Geography of the Republican Shift

3 Explaining the Republican Shift in Unhyphenated America

4 The Timing of the Republican Shift

5 Multivariate Results

6 A Distinctive and Long-Standing Shift

Chapter 4 Congressional Realignment in Unhyphenated America

1 The Distinctiveness of Congressional Elections

2 Unhyphenated Concentrated Districts

3 Unhyphenateds and Election Results, across Time

4 National Trends and Unhyphenated Concentrated Districts

5 The Trend in Congressional Races in Unhyphenated America

Chapter 5 God, Guns, and Glacier Melting: Social and Environmental Issues in Unhyphenated America

1 An Urbanized Democratic Party

2 God, Guns, and the Environment and the Politics of Unhyphenated America

3 The Conservatism and Republicanism of Unhyphenated America.

4 Opinions on Issues of Morality, Guns, and the Environment

5 Multivariate Tests

6 Distinct Opinions on Abortion

Partisan Opinions on Guns and the Environment

Chapter 6 Race and Unhyphenated America

1 Race, Racism, and Racial Resentment in Unhyphenated America

2 The Distinctiveness of Public Opinion in Unhyphenated America

3 The Divergence in Opinion in Unhyphenated America is Growing

4 Multivariate Tests

5 The Racial Conservatism of Unhyphenated America

Chapter 7 Unhyphenated America in the Republican Primary: Is This Trump's Base?

1 Is West Virginia Trump's Base? The Pundits Debate

2 Voting in Primary Elections

3 Primary Vote in 2016

4 The Effects of Trump's Momentum

5 A Multivariate Test

6 The Unhyphenated Base Holds in 2024

7 Unhyphenated America as Trump's Base

Chapter 8 Unhyphenated America, Twenty-First-Century Politics, and the Republican Coalition

1 Partisan Shifts of Twenty-First-Century Politics

2 Unhyphenated America and National Politics

3 The Uniqueness of Unhyphenated America

4 The Scots-Irish?

5 A Force of Populism and Trumpism

Works Cited

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-161570-7

9783111615707

OCLC:

1553845475