The End of Southern Exceptionalism

Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

Byron E. Shafer

Richard Johnston

  • 2007 Best Book Award by Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
  • 2008 V. O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association

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

  • Cover: The End of Southern Exceptionalism

Byron E. Shafer is Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Richard Johnston is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.