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Southern Comfort.('The Rise of Southern Republicans')
The Rise of Southern Republicans, by Earl Black and Merle Black (Harvard, 384 pp., $29.95)
During the 1988 campaign, vice-presidential nominee Dan Quayle appeared at a North Carolina-South Carolina football game in Columbia, S.C. -- the kind of autumn festival that is, in the South, part athletic contest and part cultural event. As the teams briefly suspended play in honor of the dignitary in their midst, the game announcer welcomed Quayle to the press box over the stadium sound system. Spontaneously, 70,000 people rose to their feet to give him a standing ovation that lasted several minutes: The roar was full-throated and deafening. These southerners seemed to ...
- The Rise of Southern Republicans.
- Magazine article from: Southern Cultures Quinterno, John March 22, 2004 700+ words
...was kind to southern Republicans. When the...13 of the South's 2z seats...century South, The Rise of Southern Republicans explores how...across the South, the authors show that southern Republicans perform best...
- The Rise of Southern Republicans.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Anderson, Brian June 22, 2003 700+ words
...demonstrate in The Rise of Southern Republicans (2002), the fifty...Republican party in the South have forged a competitive...debate: the many Southern Republicans in congressional leadership...label the "Peripheral South") responded to national...
- Whither Southern Republicans?
- Magazine article from: Southern Cultures Ayres, Whit McHenry, Jon March 22, 1998 700+ words
...the truth be known, many southern Republicans are pinching themselves as...formerly Democratic "Solid South." Republicans hold eighty...seats in the thirteen-state South, up from forty-four in...House of Representatives in South Carolina and North Carolina...
- Black, Earl, and Merle Black The Rise of Southern Republicans.(Book Review)
- History: Review of New Books Abrams, Douglas Carl January 1, 2004 700+ words
...that region. The Rise of Southern Republicans examines a topic familiar to students of the South, but it does so with a...The "new reality" of the South is not a dominant Republican Party, like the Solid South Democratic Party from the...
- In Senate, an expanding void of Southern Republicans: Phil Gramm joins Helms on...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor September 5, 2001 700+ words
...Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- After retaking the South in the 1980s, Republicans are suddenly facing problems in what...could be only the beginning. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R) of South Carolina - the longest serving US senator in history - is not...
- A Southern Accent for GOP // Leadership Shows Party Has Shifted
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Ronald Brownstein December 4, 1994 700+ words
...status in the South. That's likely...the rise of the Southern Republicans primarily guarantees...Clinton's term, Southern Republicans such as Gingrich...historic shift of the South from the foundation...dominance of the South. The first cracks...representatives, ...
- The bubba vote. (Political Booknotes).
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Garrett, Major May 1, 2002 700+ words
...The Rise of Southern Republicans. Forget issues...seats in the South for the first...very clear. Southern Republicans won only seven...even worse for Southern Republicans with senatorial...stranglehold on the South began to loosen...
- The Republican South Has Risen on Capitol Hill; As Democrats Retire, Dynamics...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Helen Dewar October 1, 1995 700+ words
...changed so much, in the South and on Capitol Hill...of southern power. Southern Republicans "have the momentum...Democratic dominance in the South, he said. "They...Democrats did before them, southern Republicans owe much of their power...get elected in the South, they tend to ...
