Eye of the Storm

JOHN C. KUZENSKI is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Citadel and Co-Director of The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics. He has authored or edited numerous publications, primarily in southern and legislative politics, including David Duke and the Politics of Race in the South.LAURENCE W. MORELAND is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at The Citadel and Co-Director of The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics. He has co-edited eleven books on southern politics, and he is author or co-author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.ROBERT P. STEED is Professor of Political Science at The Citadel. A Co-Director of the Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics since 1978, he has co-edited twelve books and published extensively in journals and edited collections.

• Introduction Critical Events in Contemporary Southern Politics: Dynamic Growth and Partisan Percolations by Ronald Keith Gaddie and Donna R. Hoffman What You See Is...Essentially...What You Get: House Races in the Contemporary South by Stanley P. Berard and David W. Rohde When Legislators Change Sides: The Implications of Party Defections in the South by James M. Glaser Congressional Responsiveness to Redistricting-Induced Constituency Change by Christine L. Sharpe The Contemporary South and the 1998 Elections by Charles S. Bullock III Southern Party Leaders in the Postreform House by Ronald M. Peters, Jr. The Conscience of the Revolution: Southern Influence in the House Republican "Class of 1994" by Nicol C. Rae It's the Variable, Dummy: The Evolution of Congressional Ideology, 1947-1996 by Frank B. Feigert and Michael Ault Testing Hypotheses on Increased Ideological Polarization in U.S. House Delegations from the South After Redistricting by Allison L. Hayes and Kenneth A. Wink Payback or Continuity? GOP Support of the Religious Right in the House of Representatives by Mark Caleb Smith Epilogue: The South and Congress at the End of the Twentieth Century References Index