Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.
- ISBN13 9780674043466
- Publish Date 1 July 2009 (first published 15 February 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English
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