Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-377) and index.
Contents
A one-party south : Republican ascendancy -- A two-party south : Whigs and Democrats -- A one-party south again : Democratic ascendancy -- Politics without parties : the Confederacy -- Party politics under assault : reconstruction -- Achieving democratic hegemony : the 1880s -- Eliminating the opposition : the 1890s -- Democrats and demagogues in the solid south -- Reform and reaction in the solid south -- The New Deal challenge to the solid south -- The liberal challenge in the 1940s -- The solid south under attack : white defiance -- The solid south under attack : black gains -- Old responses and new directions, 1965-1980 -- The emergence of a two-party south since 1980.
Summary
Perman surveys the entire span of southern political history from 1800 to the present.
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