During the 1990s, the Republican party surged to majority status in
the South after two decades of struggling unevenly to become
established in the formerly one-party Democratic section of the
country. In this comprehensive, up-to-date study, seasoned
observers tell the fascinating story of the GOP's remarkable
advance at the regional level and in each of the eleven states of
the former Confederacy, effectively capturing the current partisan
dynamics at work throughout Dixie.
In Southern Politics in the 1990s eleven teams of political
scientists and journalists -- all of them long-time observers of
the political scene in their own states -- offer individual
chapters that closely examine partisan and electoral developments
in each southern state. Alexander P. Lamis frames the state
discussions with introductory and concluding chapters that
highlight the evolution of the two-party South and the political
transformation the region as a whole underwent during the decade of
the 1990s.
Together, the authors show that the amazing Republican spurt was
fueled by many factors, including the ongoing entrenchment of the
partisan competition begun three decades earlier; the national
Republican sweep of 1994 that affected all regions of the country
equally; and the successful efforts of Republicans to paint the
Democrats as hopelessly mired in a corrupt political system and
themselves as untainted reformers who represent the future.
However, as the separate state chapters illustrate, the pace of
change differed from state to state. For example, South Carolina
was an early Dixie leader in the GOP's growth in the 1990s, but
Arkansas caught the wave only in the middle of the decade.
Offeringin-depth political analysis on both the state and the
regional level, Southern Politics in the 1990s reveals that the
1990s revolution in southern politics gave the country, for the
first time since the 1850s, a truly national party system. The book
will prove essential to anyone interested in southern politics at
the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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