The seeds of the new political developments in the South, where for so many years the Democratic party found solid support, were sewn way back. Although most of the former Confederate states have consistently declared their devotion to "states rights" and home rule, traditionally represented there by the Democratic party, Southern society and point-of-view has been rapidly changing during the last century. Professor Grantham interprets the economic and social revolution now under way in the South as the phenomenal climax of deep-rooted and historic developments in the region and the nation as...
The seeds of the new political developments in the South, where for so many years the Democratic party found solid support, were sewn way back. Althou...
In this biography a leading historian captures at once the essence of a man and of an important period in American history. Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South won the 1960 Charles S. Sydnor Award presented by the Southern Historical Association to the best book in Southern history published during the two preceding years.
In this biography a leading historian captures at once the essence of a man and of an important period in American history. Hoke Smith and the Politic...
Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system -- long referred to as the Solid South -- embodied a distinctive regional culture and was perpetuated through an undemocratic distribution of power and a structure based on disfranchisement, malapportioned legislatures, and one-party politics. It was the mechanism that determined who would govern in the states and localities, and in national politics it was the means through which the South's politicians defended their region's special interests and...
Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system -- long refer...