Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The Republican Party and the South: some preliminaries; Part I. The South and National Republican Party Politics, 1865–1968: 3. The rise and fall of a Republican South, 1865–1877; 4. The attempt to rebuild the Republican Party in the South, 1877–1896; 5. The system of 1896 and Republicanism in the South, 1897–1932; 6. Towards a modern Southern strategy, 1933–1968; Photos; Part II. Southern Republican Party Politics at the State Level: 7. Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, and Alabama; 8. Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, and Tennessee; 9. South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi; 10. Conclusion. The relevance of the South in the Republican Party.
Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.
Boris Heersink is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, New York. His research focuses on American political parties, and campaigns and elections. Jeffery A. Jenkins is Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on federal lawmaking, separation-of-powers, political economy, and American political development.
'How did Lincoln's Republican Party transform into today's modern
party of white, conservative America? Heersink and Jenkins dig deep
into the under-tilled politics of the post-Civil War Southern
Republican Party, rewarding us with a robust and fascinating
account of the South's partisan evolution. With impressive
historical sweep and carefully crafted case studies, Republican
Party Politics and the American South makes an essential
contribution to our understanding of America's political
development.' Sarah Binder, George Washington University,
Washington DC
'If a political party is repressed, what happens to its
organization on the ground? How does its organizational and
factional politics during its 'invisible' years shape resurgence?
In this definitive account of the Southern Republican party,
Heersink and Jenkins pose these questions and provide continually
surprising answers. Every scholar of American parties and of the
South's constitutive role in American history should read this
utterly fascinating study.' Rick Valelly, Swarthmore College,
Pennsylvania
'Deeply researched, this riveting book reveals the ill-understood,
complex, and conflictual story of the Republican Party in the
South, from the close of the Civil War to the late 1960s. This rich
analytical history illuminates many dimensions of intra-party and
partisan politics, including matters of race and class, deepening
our understanding of profound questions about motivations and
preferences, strategies and impact.' Ira Katznelson, Columbia
University, New York
'If students of American political parties think of the history of
the Republican Party at all, they focus on two bookends - its
Reconstruction founding, with a core constituency of newly
enfranchised Blacks, and its more recent manifestation, with a core
constituency of conservative whites. Heersink and Jenkins show
that the abandonment of southern Black voters was abetted by
national party building strategies. The evidence brought to bear is
a deft combination of quantitative analysis of the inclusion of
Black delegates in national party conventions and insightful case
studies of party development within each state of the former
Confederacy.' Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
'Prof. Boris Heersink and Jeffrey A. Jenkins outstanding work
Republican Party Politics and the American South 1865–1968 explores
the transformation of the Party of Lincoln into the predominant
modern, white conservative political institution. The careful use
of case studies of the American South from the end of the Civil
War, through the simultaneous repression of the black vote, local
organization, and black inclusion in state and national GOP party
politics shed light on the politics of the GOP's 'phone booth
party' years. They carry us through to the fragmentation of the
South in the 1968 election and the resurgence of the GOP as viable
alternative to the Democrats. The work is a major contribution to
understanding American political development and will need to sit
on the desk in close reach of all of us who study Southern and
American politics.' Keith Gaddie, Phil Klinkner, Mike Fix, and
Periloux Peay, V. O. Key Award Committee 2020
'This book adds significant information to available knowledge of
American politics.' J. P. Sanson, Choice
'… Heersink and Jenkins's study is incredibly important. It will
help those wishing to understand how and why the Party of Lincoln
became the Party of Trump.' Edward O. Frantz, The Journal of
Southern History
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