Rural Republican realignment in the modern South the untold story
Introduction: Texas: Thirty Years Apart -- America's Longest and Deepest Realignment -- Measuring Place and the Data Associated with It -- Presidential Republicanism and Democratic Darn Near Everything Else -- Voting for the Biggest Prize: Presidential Elections -- US Senate Elections: Republic...
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Columbia, South Carolina
The University of South Carolina Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: Texas: Thirty Years Apart -- America's Longest and Deepest Realignment -- Measuring Place and the Data Associated with It -- Presidential Republicanism and Democratic Darn Near Everything Else -- Voting for the Biggest Prize: Presidential Elections -- US Senate Elections: Republicans' Most Promising and Attainable Seats -- The Rural Transformation in Southern Gubernatorial Elections -- Rural Voters in Southern US House Elections -- Survey Says? Rural Whites' Changing Party Identification -- More Evidence: Rural Voters in Four Southern States -- How Are Rural and Urban Southerners Different? -- The 2020 Elections in the South -- Too Little, Too Late? "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 [...]." |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 315 Seiten Diagramme, Karten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781643363028 978-1-64336-302-8 9781643363011 978-1-64336-301-1 |