J. Clark Archer is professor of geography at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the coauthor of Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, From Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan (with Peter J. Taylor, 1981), the first quantitative critique of the geographical structure of state voting in U.S presidential elections. He also collaborated in the publication of American Electoral Mosaics (with Fred M. Shelley and Ellen R. White, 1986), Political Geography of the United States (with Stanly D. Brunn, Fiona M. Davidson, and Fred M. Shelley, 1996), Atlas of American Politics, 1960-2000 (with Stephen J. Lavin, Kenneth C. Martis, and Fred M. Shelley for CQ Press, 2002), as well as numerous journals and articles.
