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The Rational Southerner

Black Mobilization, Republican Growth, and the Partisan Transformation of the American South

By: M. V. Hood III,Quentin Kidd,Irwin L. Morris

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The Rational Southerner

Black Mobilization, Republican Growth, and the Partisan Transformation of the American South

By: M. V. Hood III,Quentin Kidd,Irwin L. Morris

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States. The once Solid-meaning 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 local strategic dynamics played a decisive and underappreciated role in both the development of the Southern Republican Party and the mobilization of the region's black electorate. Mobilized blacks who supported the Democratic Party made it increasingly difficult for conservative whites to maintain control of the Party's machinery. Also, as local Republican Party organizations became politically viable, the strategic opportunities that such a change provided made the GOP an increasingly attractive alternative for white conservatives. Blacks also found new opportunities within the Democratic Party as whites fled to the GOP, especially in the deep South, where large black populations had the potential to dominate state and local Democratic Parties. As a result, Republican Party viability also led to black mobilization. Using the theory of relative advantage, Hood, Kidd, and Morris provide a new perspective on party system transformation. Following a theoretically-informed description of recent partisan dynamics in the South, they 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 authors' finding 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. The Rational Southerner contributes not only to the study of Southern politics, but to our understanding of party system change, racial politics, and the role that state and local political dynamics play in the larger context of national politics and policymaking.

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Oxford University Press

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0199873836

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Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South

The Untold Story

By: M.V. Hood, III,Seth C. McKee

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Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South

The Untold Story

By: M.V. Hood, III,Seth C. McKee

An inside look at why the Republican Party has come to dominate the rural American South Beginning with the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948 and extending through the 2020 election cycle, political scientists M.V. Hood III and Seth C. McKee trace the process by which rural white southerners transformed from fiercely loyal Democrats to stalwart Republicans. While these rural white southerners were the slowest to affiliate with the Grand Old Party, they are now its staunchest supporters. This transition and the reasons for it are vital to understanding the current electoral landscape of the American South, including states like Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, all of which have the potential to exert enormous influence over national electoral outcomes. In this first book-length empirically based study focusing on rural southern voters, Hood and McKee examine their changing political behavior, arguing that their Democratic-to-Republican transition is both more recent and more durable than most political observers realize. By analyzing data collected from their own region-wide polling along with a variety of other carefully mined sources, the authors explain why the initial appeal of 1950s Republicanism to upscale white southerners in metropolitan settings took well over a half-century to yield to, and morph into, its culturally conservative variant now championed by rural residents. Hood and McKee contend that it is impossible to understand current American electoral politics without understanding the longer trajectory of voting behavior in rural America and they offer not only a framework but also the data necessary for doing so.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643363034

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9781643363035

The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Invisible Dog

By: M. V. Carey,Robert Arthur

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The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Invisible Dog

By: M. V. Carey,Robert Arthur

The three investigators are hounded by supernatural forces as they attempt to recover a stolen sculpture of a legendary wolf-dog.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0394864239

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9780394864235

The Mystery of the Trail of Terror

By: M. V. Carey

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The Mystery of the Trail of Terror

By: M. V. Carey

While accompanying Pete's inventor grandfather to New York where the old man plans to sell his new invention, the Three Investigators find themselves in the middle of a dangerous spy case.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0394866096

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Book's by M.V. Hood, III

The Rational Southerner

The Rational Southerner

Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South

Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South

The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Invisible Dog

The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Invisible Dog

The Mystery of the Trail of Terror

The Mystery of the Trail of Terror

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