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623582
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Rae, Nicol C.
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Southern Democrats /\ Nicol C. Rae.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1994.
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xvi, 208 p. ;; 22 cm.
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0195087089 (acid-free paper)
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: 9780195087086 (acid-free paper)
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: 0195087097 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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: 9780195087093 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index.
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| Contents
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1. The South and American Party Factionalism. Factions and Factionalism. American Party Factionalism Before the New Deal. The New Deal, a Period of Transition. American Party Factionalism After the New Deal. The Republicans: Conservative Dominance. Democratic Party Factionalism in the 1990s: A Complex Pattern. Implications -- 2. The Old Southern Democracy and Its Erosion, 1876 to 1965. Politics in the Antebellum South: Honor and Slavery. Reconstruction and Restoration: The Forging of the Solid South, 1860 to 1896. The Solid South at High Tide, 1896 to 1948. The Civil Rights Movement and the Disintegration of the One-Party South, 1948 to 1965 -- 3. The Democrats' Presidential Weakness in the South, 1968 to 1988. The Years of Realignment, 1968 and 1972. Analysis of a Realignment. The South and the Democrats' Presidential Nominating Process Since 1968. Jimmy Carter, the Exceptional Case. The Super Tuesday Debacle in 1988. Conclusion: Waiting for Recession? -- 4. Southern Democrats in the U.S. Congress.
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The House. The Rise and Fall of the "Old South" in the House. Why Are They Still Democrats? Issues and Ideology. Southern Democrats and the House. Democratic Party. Regional Identity and Organization. Southern House Democrats and the National Party. The Senate. The "Solid South" in the U.S. Senate. A New Senate: Ideology and Partisanship. Senate Southern Democrats in the 1990s -- 5. The Conservative Counterattack. The Democratic Leadership Council. The First Phase of the DLC. The DLCs' Infrastructure. The DLCs' Mission and Policies. The DLC at the Outset of the 1992 Campaign. Conclusion: The Absent Center -- 6. The 1992 Election: The South Recaptures the Democratic Party and the White House. A Big Fish in a Small Pond: The Democratic Field in 1992. The Democratic Primary Campaign. Bill Clinton's Democratic Party: The 1992 Democratic Convention and Perot Mark II. Perot Mark II and the Fall Campaign. The Election Result and the New Democratic Administration.
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7. Conclusion: The Future of the Southern Democrats and American. Party Factionalism in the 1990s. Southern Democrats and the Clinton Presidency. A New Factional Pattern?
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From the election of Jimmy Carter to the wide defection of Democrats in the South to the Republican ticket in the Reagan/Bush years, Southern Democrats have played a crucial role in recent American national politics. With the 1992 election of President Clinton, they once again occupy a place at the center of the American political stage.
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A timely examination of this important phenomenon in American politics, Southern Democrats traces the history of this influential regional faction and gauges the extent and nature of Southern Democratic influence in contemporary congressional and presidential politics.
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Nicol Rae persuasively argues that the Southern Democrats remain a distinctive faction today, thirty years after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which initiated the end of the social and economic system that had previously bound them together.
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The only surviving political faction based on regional - rather than ideological - concerns, they have nevertheless evolved from being a deviant element within the party to coming closer to the national Democratic norm, a transition most apparent in civil rights issues.
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Drawing on interviews with many southern politicians and memoirs and accounts of past campaigns, Rae deals with the success of Southern Democrat and Democratic Leadership Council leader Bill Clinton in winning the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination, and reveals the changing role of Southern Democrats in internal party politics and national elections. He concludes with an overall assessment of the present and future state of this important southern wing of the Democratic party.
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Given the success of the all southern 1992 Clinton/Gore ticket, Southern Democrats is sure to command a wide audience of scholars and students of political science, journalists, and general readers interested in the region.
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Democratic Party (U.S.)
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Southern States, Politics and government, 1951-
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United States, Politics and government, 1945-1989.
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United States, Politics and government, 1989-
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JK2316.R34 1994
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