Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction - Softcover

Bartley, Numan; Graham, Hugh Davis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421435187 ISBN 13: 9781421435183

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Originally published in 1975. This is a history of southern political life since the New Deal and World War II, encompassing a crucial epoch: an attempted Second Reconstruction of the South. The authors focus on the electoral response to candidates and issues. The authors contend that, despite the nationalizing and homogenizing forces that eroded much of the South's distinctiveness during the postwar years, the region's historical legacy perpetuated its distinctive patterns of cultural and political life. Further, the authors contend that despite the virtual destruction of the South's four inherited institutions of political sectionalism during the years of the Second Reconstruction―disenfranchisement, malapportionment, a one-party system, and de jure racial segregation―the new southern politics maintained a deep racial division that has militated against class coalitions, especially across racial lines, and has permitted government by relatively insulated elites.

About this title

About the Author:

Numan V. Bartley is E. Merton Coulter Professor of History emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s. Hugh D. Graham was dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1421435187
• ISBN 13: 9781421435183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258