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The Unsolid South - Mass Politics and National Representation in a One-Party Enclave (Paperback)
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The Unsolid South - Mass Politics and National Representation in a One-Party Enclave (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
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During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the
American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while
also playing an outsized role in national politics. In this
compelling book, Devin Caughey provides an entirely new
understanding of electoral competition and national representation
in this exclusionary one-party enclave. Challenging the notion that
the Democratic Party's political monopoly inhibited competition and
served only the Southern elite, he demonstrates how Democratic
primaries-even as they excluded African Americans-provided forums
for ordinary whites to press their interests. Focusing on politics
during and after the New Deal, Caughey shows that congressional
primary elections effectively substituted for partisan competition,
in part because the spillover from national party conflict helped
compensate for the informational deficits of elections without
party labels. Caughey draws on a broad range of historical and
quantitative evidence, including archival materials, primary
election returns, congressional voting records, and hundreds of
early public opinion polls that illuminate ideological patterns in
the Southern public. Defying the received wisdom, this evidence
reveals that members of Congress from the one-party South were no
less responsive to their electorates than members from states with
true partisan competition. Reinterpreting a critical period in
American history, The Unsolid South reshapes our understanding of
the role of parties in democratic theory and sheds critical new
light on electoral politics in authoritarian regimes.
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