The Rational Southerner : Black Mobilization, Republican Growth, and the Partisan Transformation of the American South.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: Theory and Background -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 A Half-Century of Political Change in the South -- CHAPTER 3 The Strategic Dynamics of Southern Political Change -- CHAPTER 4 Relative Advantage in Action: Case Studies in the Evolution of Republican State Parties in the South -- SECTION TWO: Republican Growth -- CHAPTER 5 Putting Relative Advantage to the Test: State-Level Republican Growth in the Modern American South -- CHAPTER 6 Relative Advantage and Republican Growth at the Substate Level -- CHAPTER 7 An Examination of the Theory of Relative Advantage at the Individual Level -- SECTION THREE: Black Mobilization -- CHAPTER 8 Relative Advantage in a Post-VRA World: Black Voter Registration in the Modern South -- SECTION FOUR: Conclusion -- CHAPTER 9 Summary and Concluding Thoughts: Disintegration of the Solid South -- Appendix A: Data Sources -- Appendix B: Variable Operationalizations -- Appendix C: Ancillary Statistical Models -- Endnotes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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.

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