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Essay on The Rise of Southern Republicans by Black, Earl and Merle Black
The political scientists, and brothers, Earl, and Merle Black with their body of work on Southern politics and society, have replaced V. O. Key, Jr. who’s Southern Politics in State and Nation (1949) served for decades as the point of reference for understanding that district. The Rise of Southern Republicans scrutinizes a topic known to students of the South, however it does so with a simplicity and readability that will agree to scholars and the general public to profit from it.
The "new authenticity" of the South is not a leading Republican Party, like the Solid South Democratic Party from the late nineteenth century until the 1960s, however two alternative parties that are very aggressive. The strapping presence of the GOP not just has misrepresented the South, however also has given the nation, for the first time in view of the fact that pre-Civil War days, a competitive national party system. Black and Black vigilantly chart this changeover in the South after World War II. This change occurred because of the migration out of the South by African Americans, federal intervention in voting rights, and presidential politics. Their narrative points to critical milestones from 1948 when Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, ran for president as a Dixiecrat and carried four southern states, to 1994, when James Sasser of Tennessee, in line to be the Senate Democratic leader, lost to Republican Bill Frist by the largest margin for an incumbent Democratic senator in the modern South.
The authors point to 1994 as the most dramatic moment for this political transformation. Republicans captured both the Senate and the House, with key help from the South. In 1992 the Republicans in the South controlled 38 percent of House seats and 32 percent of Senate seats, but by 2000 the percentages soared to 57 percent and 59 percent, respectively.....
