Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction

Numan V. Bartley is E. Merton Coulter Professor of History emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s. Hugh D. Graham was dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Hugh Davis Graham was an American historian and sociologist. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, where he served as director of the Institute of Southern History and was the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University.

• IllustrationsTables Preface Chapter 1. The American Party Systems and the SouthChapter 2. The Populist-New Deal Legacy: One-Party Politics in the Postwar DecadeChapter 3. One-Party State Politics and the Impact of DesegregationChapter 4. The Emergence of Two-Party Politics: Republicanism in the New SouthChapter 5. The Politics of TurmoilChapter 6. The Ambiguous Resurgence of the New SouthChapter 7. The 1972 ElectionsChapter 8. ConclusionNote on Methodology and Data SourcesBibliographical EssayIndex