![]() | The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South Subjects: Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1951–; Political parties -- Southern States; Social classes -- Southern States; Southern States -- Race relations; The transformation of Southern politics after World War II changed the political life not just of this distinctive region, but of the entire nation. 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. |
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