Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South

Klappentext

Glaser draws upon his own direct observations, news reports, and extensive interviews with election participants-candidates, advisors, journalists, labor leaders, party officials, black ministers, volunteers, and others - to demonstrate that issues of group conflict and race continue to have an enormous impact on congressional politics in the South.

Zusammenfassung
Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, while Republican candidates have carried the South in presidential elections, the Democratic Party has persisted in winning southern congressional elections. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this text examines this political phenomenon.