TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hood, M. V.
AU  - Kidd, Quentin.
AU  - Morris, Irwin L.
TI  - The rational Southerner : black mobilization, republican growth, and the partisan transformation of the American South
SN  - 9780199980
AV  - JK2683 .H66 2012
U1  - 306.20975 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
KW  - Democratic Party (U.S.)
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Southern States
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Racism
KW  - Party affiliation
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - What drove the transformation of post-World War II politics in the South? In The Rational Southerner, M. V. Hood, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris develop a theory of relative advantage to explain why whites fled the Democratic Party and what propelled black political mobilization. Collating decades of data, the authors demonstrate that race was, and is, the chief force behind political change in the region
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199873821.001.0001
ER  -