Southern Democrats
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 1995
225 pages
978-0-19-802477-4 (ISBN)
Description
Rae's book analyses southern Democrats as a force in American politics since the 1960s. Drawing on interviews with many southern politicians, Rae traces the history of southern Democrats from the erosion of their national influence in the early 1960s to the 1992 election of Clinton and Gore.
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Nicol C. Rae
Southern Democrats
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05/1994
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 1. The South and American Party Factionalism
- Factions and Factionalism
- American Party Factionalism Before the New Deal
- The New Deal, a Period of Transition
- American Party Factionalism After the New Deal
- The Republicans: Conservative Dominance
- Democratic Party Factionalism in the 1990s: A Complex Pattern
- Implications
- 2. The Old Southern Democracy and Its Erosion, 1876 to 1965
- Politics in the Antebellum South: Honor and Slavery
- Reconstruction and Restoration: The Forging of the Solid South, 1860 to 1896
- The Solid South at High Tide, 1896 to 1948
- The Civil Rights Movement and the Disintegration of the One-Party South, 1948 to 1965
- 3. The Democrats' Presidential Weakness in the South, 1968 to 1988
- The Years of Realignment, 1968 and 1972
- Analysis of a Realignment
- The South and the Democrats' Presidential Nominating Process Since 1968
- Jimmy Carter, the Exceptional Case
- The Super Tuesday Debacle in 1988
- Conclusion: Waiting for Recession?
- 4. Southern Democrats in the U.S. Congress
- The House
- The Rise and Fall of the "Old South" in the House
- Why Are They Still Democrats?
- Issues and Ideology
- Southern Democrats and the House Democratic Party
- Regional Identity and Organization
- Southern House Democrats and the National Party
- Summary
- The Senate
- The "Solid South" in the U.S. Senate
- A New Senate: Ideology and Partisanship
- Senate Southern Democrats in the 1990s
- Summary
- 5. The Conservative Counterattack: The Democratic Leadership Council
- The First Phase of the DLC
- The DLC's Infrastructure
- The DLC's Mission and Policies
- The DLC at the Outset of the 1992 Campaign
- Conclusion: The Absent Center
- 6. The 1992 Election: The South Recaptures the Democratic Party and the White House
- A Big Fish in a Small Pond: The Democratic Field in 1992
- The Democratic Primary Campaign
- Bill Clinton's Democratic Party: The 1992 Democratic Convention and Perot Mark I
- Perot Mark II and the Fall Campaign
- The Election Result and the New Democratic Administration
- Conclusion
- 7. Conclusion: The Future of the Southern Democrats and American Party Factionalism in the 1990s
- Southern Democrats and the Clinton Presidency
- A New Factional Pattern ?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
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