Southern democrats:

From the election of Jimmy Carter to the wide defection of Democrats in the South to the Republican ticket in the Reagan/Bush years, Southern Democrats have played a crucial role in recent American national politics. With the 1992 election of President Clinton, they once again occupy a place at the...

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Main Author: Rae, Nicol C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 1994
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Summary:From the election of Jimmy Carter to the wide defection of Democrats in the South to the Republican ticket in the Reagan/Bush years, Southern Democrats have played a crucial role in recent American national politics. With the 1992 election of President Clinton, they once again occupy a place at the center of the American political stage
A timely examination of this important phenomenon in American politics, Southern Democrats traces the history of this influential regional faction and gauges the extent and nature of Southern Democratic influence in contemporary congressional and presidential politics
Nicol Rae persuasively argues that the Southern Democrats remain a distinctive faction today, thirty years after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which initiated the end of the social and economic system that had previously bound them together
Physical Description:XVI, 208 S.
ISBN:0195087089
0195087097

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