Table of Contents

Part 1 The national setting: the Republican edge; the South and the electoral college; the changing geography of presidential elections. Part 2 Presidential nominations in historical perspective: the South and Democratic nominations; the South and Republican nominations. Part 3 The dissolution of the solid Democratic South: the white revolt in the deep South; the Republican breakthrough in the peripheral South. Part 4 Modern presidential politics: the new southern electorate; the progressive advantage in democratic primaries; the Conservative triumph in Republican primaries; Republican dominance after the great society; the Democratic interlude; as the South goes.