Volume 19, Number 10 · December 14, 1972
The Chaotic Politics of the South
By C. Vann Woodward
The Changing Politics of the South
edited by William C. Havard
Louisiana State University Press, 755 pp., $17.50
Biracial Politics: Conflict and Coalition in the Metropolitan South
by Chandler Davidson
Louisiana State University Press, 301 pp., $11.95
Let the Glory Out: My South and Its Politics
by Albert Gore
Viking, 307 pp., $8.95
For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes. Whatever defection occurred elsewhere, whatever states were considered 'doubtful,' or had to be 'written off,' the eleven states of the former Confederacy were generally taken for granted. The core of solidarity and party loyalty hardened, the unquestioning attachment grew, and the overwhelming majorities increased the closer one came to the Black Belt and the Deep South.
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