Author : Byron E Shafer
Release : 2006
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 348/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The End of Southern Exceptionalism by : Byron E Shafer
Download or read book The End of Southern Exceptionalism written by Byron E Shafer. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.