Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968

Author: Boris Heersink

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1108850820

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In Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968, Heersink and Jenkins examine how National Convention politics allowed the South to remain important to the Republican Party after Reconstruction, and trace how Republican organizations in the South changed from biracial coalitions to mostly all-white ones over time. Little research exists on the GOP in the South after Reconstruction and before the 1960s. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 helps fill this knowledge gap. Using data on the race of Republican convention delegates from 1868 to 1952, the authors explore how the 'whitening' of the Republican Party affected its vote totals in the South. Once states passed laws to disenfranchise blacks during the Jim Crow era, the Republican Party in the South performed better electorally the whiter it became. These results are important for understanding how the GOP emerged as a competitive, and ultimately dominant, electoral party in the late-twentieth century South.

The Life and Death of the Solid South
The Life and Death of the Solid South

Author: Dewey W. Grantham

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0813184223

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Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system—long referred to as the Solid South—embodied a distinctive regional culture and was perpetuated through an undemocratic distribution of power and a structure based on disfranchisement, malapportioned legislatures, and one-party politics. It was the mechanism that determined who would govern in the states and localities, and in national politics it was the means through which the South's politicians defended their region's special interests and political autonomy. The history of this remarkable institution can be traced in the gradual rise, long persistence, and ultimate decline of the Democratic Party dominance in the land below the Potomac and the Ohio. This is the story that Dewey W. Grantham tells in his fresh and authoritative account of the South's modern political experience. The distillation of many years of research and reflection, is both a synthesis of the extensive literature on politics in the recent South and a challenging reinterpretation of the region's political history.

The Republican Party
The Republican Party

Author: John Davis Long

Publisher:

Published: 1888

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13:

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Illustrated with engravings. History, essays, and position papers by various leading Republican politicians of the day including future President William McKinley, Senators William Chandler, Joseph Hawley, John Ingalls, and representatives Benj. Butterworth and Henry Cabot Lodge (future senator and great friend of Theodore Roosevelt). Issues discussed include: public lands, pensions, fisheries, Navy, Merchant Marine, Coast Defense, foreign trade, revenue, protective tariff, internal development, civil service, the "fair vote and honest count."