The Rise of Southern Republicans

Earl Black

Merle Black

  • Washington Monthly's 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winner

1. The Southern Transformation

2. Confronting the Democratic Juggernaut

3. The Promising Peripheral South

4. The Impenetrable Deep South

5. The Democratic Smother

6. The Democratic Domination

7. Reagan's Realignment of White Southerners

8. A New Party System in the South

9. The Peripheral South Breakthrough

10. The Deep South Challenge

11. The Republican Surge

12. Competitive South, Competitive America

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  • Cover: The Rise of Southern Republicans
  • A photo of the author

Author photo of Earl Black by Tommy LaVergne, Rice University

Earl Black is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Political Science at Rice University.

Merle Black is Asa G. Candler Professor of Politics and Government at Emory University.