Rural Republican realignment in the modern South: the untold story

"Throughout the modern South many of the region's cities have become blue Democratic enclaves surrounded by crimson suburbs, and burgundy rural communities staunchly aligned with the Republican Party. This is almost a complete reversal of the pattern that existed for much of the twentieth...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Hood, M. V. (VerfasserIn), McKee, Seth Charles 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia, South Carolina The University of South Carolina Press [2022]
Schlagworte:
Zusammenfassung:"Throughout the modern South many of the region's cities have become blue Democratic enclaves surrounded by crimson suburbs, and burgundy rural communities staunchly aligned with the Republican Party. This is almost a complete reversal of the pattern that existed for much of the twentieth century, during which the backbone of southern Democracy was located in rural counties. Now rural counties are the bulwark of modern southern Republicanism. What happened, and when? Those are the key questions that political scientists M. V. Hood III and Seth McKee explore in this pathbreaking study of rural Republican political realignment in the modern South. Understanding voting patterns in the rural South, and indeed in rural America more generally, has become central to understanding our current electoral landscape. In this empiracally-based study, Hood and McKee trace the shifting political affiliations in the rural South, arguing that this transition has been both more recent and more durable than most political observers realize. Whereas much of the literature on political realignment in the South has focused on urban/suburban voters, Hood and McKee set their sites on rural voters. They mine a variety of data sources to uncover granular detail about voting behavior in rural counties. They also conducted their own region-wide poll of rural voters, administered through the University of Georgia's School and Public and International Affairs (SPIA) Survey Research Center, where co-author M.V. Hood serves as director. The inclusion of original polling research represents a significant contribution and also highlights the fact that the authors are uniquely situated to offer a detailed regional analysis of rural southern politics [...]."
Beschreibung:x, 315 Seiten Diagramme, Karten 23 cm
ISBN:9781643363028
9781643363011

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand!