The End of Southern Exceptionalism : : Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South / / Richard Johnston, Byron E. Shafer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Shafer, Byron E.,; Johnston, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. The Nature of the Puzzle --; 2. Economic Development and a Politics of Class --; 3. Legal Desegregation and a Politics of Race --; 4. Class, Race, and Partisan Change --; 5. Social Forces and Partisan Politicians --; 6. Old South, New South, No South? --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674043466; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674043466
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard Johnston, Byron E. Shafer.

Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.