The life & death of the Solid South : a political history / Dewey W. Grantham.
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 ba...
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| Other title: | Life and death of the Solid South. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1988.
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| Series: | New perspectives on the South.
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| Summary: | 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 au. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813148724 0813148723 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |