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The Rise of Southern Republicans By Earl Black and Merle Black Belknap Press, 2002 384 pp. Cloth $29.95 The Politics of Cultural Differences Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period By David C. Leege, Kenneth D. Wald, Brian S. Krueger, and Paul D. Mueller Princeton University Press, 2002 304 pp. Cloth $60.00 Reviewed by John Quinterno, assistant director of the University of North Carolina's Program on Southern Politics, Media, and Public Life. Election 2002 was kind to southern Republicans. When the votes were counted, the gop controlled 13 of the South's 22 seats in the U.S. Senate and 76 of the region's 131 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. This development is remarkable given the Democratic Party's historical dominance of southern politics and the relative speed of Republican growth. In 1950, for example, the eleven southern states sent exactly two Republicans, both representatives, to Washington, but roughly 50 years later Republicans constituted a majority. Recent Republican victories in southern congressional campaigns were preceded by successful gop presidential campaigns during the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which Republican presidential candidates learned how to connect with white southern voters whose world
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 3, 2004
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