In The Southern Political Tradition, the distinguished southern
historian Michael Perman explores the region's distinctive
political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the
South's perception of itself as a minority under attack from the
1820s to the 1960s. Drawing on his extensive research and
understanding of southern politics, Perman singles out three
features of the area's political history. He calls the first
element "The One-Party Paradigm," a political system characterized
by one-party dominance rather than competition between two or more.
The second feature, "The Frontier and Filibuster Defense,"
illustrates a dramatic, preemptive response within Congress to any
threat to the region's racial order. And in the third, "The
Over-Representation Mechanism," Perman describes the skillful
manipulation of institutional mechanisms in Congress that resulted
in greater influence than the region's relatively small population
warranted.
This anomalous tradition has all but disappeared since the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Southern
Political Tradition offers an insightful and provocative
perspective on the South's political history.
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