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Author:   M. V. Hood III (Associate Professor of Government, Associate Professor of Government, University of Georgia) ,  Quentin Kidd (Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Government Department, Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Government Department, Christopher Newport University) ,  Irwin L. Morris (Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Maryland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.386kg
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9780199377640

ISBN 10:   0199377642
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   26 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section I: Theory and Background Ch. 1: Introduction Ch. 2: A Half Century of Political Change in the South Ch. 3: The Strategic Dynamics of Southern Political Change Ch. 4: Relative Advantage in Action: Case Studies in the Evolution of Republican State Parties in the South Section II: Republican Growth Ch. 5: Putting Relative Advantage to the Test: State-Level Republican Growth in the Modern American South Ch. 6: Relative Advantage and Republican Growth at the Sub-State Level Ch. 7: An Examination of the Theory of Relative Advantage at the Individual-Level Section III: Black Mobilization Ch. 8: Relative Advantage in a Post-VRA World: Black Voter Registration in the Modern South Section IV: Conclusion Ch. 9: Summary and Concluding Thoughts Appendix A: Data Sources Appendix B: Variable Operationalizations Appendix C: Ancillary Statistical Models Works Cited

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Scholars have long been fascinated by the transformation of the South from a Democratic bastion to a Republican stronghold. Hood, Kidd, and Morris develop an innovative theoretical argument, denoted relative advantage theory, to explain this transformation, and they document convincingly the causal pas de deux that has taken place in the South over time between the growth of the Republican Party and the mobilization of black voters. The authors have written a superb book that will quickly become a major work in the study of southern politics, political realignments, and racial politics. --James C. Garand, Emogine Pliner Distinguished Professor and R. Downs Poindexter Professor, Louisiana State University Southern whites found a comfortable new home in the GOP. Unable to dominate the Democratic Party after Jim Crow fell, whites found a home where political compromise was Unnecessary. As The Rational Southerner shows, this trend toward 'white flight' was also an act of political flight that enabled a two-party South. --Ronald Keith Gaddie, The University of Oklahoma; co-author of The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South

Scholars have long been fascinated by the transformation of the South from a Democratic bastion to a Republican stronghold. Hood, Kidd, and Morris develop an innovative theoretical argument, denoted relative advantage theory, to explain this transformation, and they document convincingly the causal pas de deux that has taken place in the South over time between the growth of the Republican Party and the mobilization of black voters. The authors have written a superb book that will quickly become a major work in the study of southern politics, political realignments, and racial politics. --James C. Garand, Emogine Pliner Distinguished Professor and R. Downs Poindexter Professor, Louisiana State University Southern whites found a comfortable new home in the GOP. Unable to dominate the Democratic Party after Jim Crow fell, whites found a home where political compromise was Unnecessary. As The Rational Southerner shows, this trend toward 'white flight' was also an act of political flight that enabled a two-party South. --Ronald Keith Gaddie, The University of Oklahoma; co-author of The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South

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M.V. Hood is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Georgia. Quentin Kidd is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Government Department at Christopher Newport University. Irwin L. Morris is Professor and Department Chair of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.

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