The Rational Southerner
Black Mobilization, Republican Growth, and the Partisan Transformation of the American South
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 November 2012
- ISBN 9780199873821
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 163x239x15 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32 figures and 12 tables 0
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Short description:
What drove the transformation of post-World War II politics in the South? In The Rational Southerner, M. V. Hood, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris develop a theory of relative advantage to explain why whites fled the Democratic Party and what propelled black political mobilization. Collating decades of data, the authors demonstrate that race was, and is, the chief force behind political change in the region.
MoreLong description:
Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the country. The Solid (Democratic) South is now overwhelmingly Republican, and long disenfranchised African Americans vote at levels comparable to those of whites. In The Rational Southerner, M.V. Hood III, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris argue that strategic decisions by politically active members of both races played a decisive and underappreciated role in the development of the Southern Republican Party and the mobilization of the black electorate. They explain that mobilized blacks joining the Democratic Party made it increasingly difficult for conservative whites to maintain control of the Democratic Party machinery, making the increasingly visible Republican Party in the region more attractive to conservative whites looking to maintain political power in the region.
The authors reach this conclusion by using their theory of relative advantage, which describes the way in which regional differentiation in demographics and electoral makeup produced an internally differentiated system. Following a theoretically-informed description of recent partisan dynamics in the South, Hood, Kidd, and Morris demonstrate with decades of state-level, sub-state, and individual-level data that GOP organizational strength and black electoral mobilization were the primary determinants of political change in the region. The core finding of their research, that race was, and still is, the primary driver behind political change in the region, stands in stark contrast to recent scholarship which points to in-migration, economic growth, or religious factors as the locus of transition. Original, groundbreaking, and strikingly relevant to the coming 2012 election year, The Rational Southerner provides a new perspective not only on Southern Politcs, but on the study of local political dynamics and party system transformation as a whole.
The Rational Southerner is a clearly written, thoroughly researched account of partisan change which sheds considerable light on the nature of southern party loyalties and on the current condition of US politics.
Table of Contents:
Section I: Theory and Background
Ch. 1: Introduction
Ch. 2: A Half Century of Political Change in the South
Ch. 3: The Strategic Dynamics of Southern Political Change
Ch. 4: Relative Advantage in Action: Case Studies in the Evolution of Republican State Parties in the South
Section II: Republican Growth
Ch. 5: Putting Relative Advantage to the Test: State-Level Republican Growth in the Modern American South
Ch. 6: Relative Advantage and Republican Growth at the Sub-State Level
Ch. 7: An Examination of the Theory of Relative Advantage at the Individual-Level
Section III: Black Mobilization
Ch. 8: Relative Advantage in a Post-VRA World: Black Voter Registration in the Modern South
Section IV: Conclusion
Ch. 9: Summary and Concluding Thoughts
Appendix A: Data Sources
Appendix B: Variable Operationalizations
Appendix C: Ancillary Statistical Models Works Cited
