Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Data and Appendices
Introduction: The Long Southern Strategy Explained
Part I: The Grand Bargain
Chapter 1: The Not-So-New Southern Racism
Chapter 2: Southern White Privilege
Chapter 3: The Myth of Post-Racial America
Part II: Operation Dixie Family Values
Chapter 4: The Not-So-New Southern Sexism
Chapter 5: Southern White Patriarchy
Chapter 6: The Myth of the Gender Gap
Part III: Politics and the Pulpit
Chapter 7: The Not-So-New Southern Religion
Chapter 8: Southern White Fundamentalism
Chapter 9: The Myth of the Social Conservative
Conclusion: An Echo, Not a Choice
Appendix A: Survey Instruments
Appendix B: Sample Sizes
Appendix C: Significance Tests
Figures and Tables
List of Captions
Angie Maxwell is the Director of the Diane D. Blair Center of
Southern Politics and Society, an associate professor of political
science, and holder of the Diane D. Blair Endowed Professorship in
Southern Studies at the University of Arkansas. She is the
co-editor of several volumes and the author of the The Indicted
South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of
Whiteness, which won the Southern Political Science
Association's 2015 V. O. Key Award for best book in Southern
Politics.
Todd Shields is the Dean of the J. William Fulbright College of
Arts and Sciences and a professor of political science at the
University of Arkansas. He is the co-author or co-editor of several
books, including The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in
Presidential Campaigns, which won the American Political Science
Association's 2009 Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in
Political Psychology.
"Based on extensive research, including qualitative and
quantitative scholarship (with survey data included), the book is
filled with insights into recent history and the current state of
politics in the South and the nation. Although challenging, it
largely avoids disciplinary jargon and therefore is accessible to a
broader audience. Highly relevant, and deserving of a broad
readership. ... Summing up: Highly recommended" -- C. K. Piehl,
CHOICE
"Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields demonstrate in their fine The Long
Southern Strategy just how the party of Lincoln became the party of
the South. Their book permits us to better understand how the
southern-oriented views of identifiers of that party blended with
those of the North to create a truly national political opinion, in
ways in which a northern and southern Democratic majority never
did." -- John H. Aldrich, Duke University, Perspectives
on Politics
"This volume provides scholars of the South's partisan realignment
with revealing data depicting the centrality of white southern
identity to the GOP's repeated efforts to win the region ...
scholars seeking insight into white southern voters' identity --
and how identity translates into behavior at the polls -- will find
much to mine in this volume." -- Katherine Rye Jewell, North
Carolina Historical Review
"In The Long Southern Strategy, Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
demonstrate that this strategy was not, as political scientists
might be tempted to think, just about electoral politics. Instead,
to fully understand the history (and contemporary implications) of
the southern strategy, one must look at the interdependence of
racism, religion and patriarchy. ... Maxwell and Shields encourage
the reader to see the intricacies of these interwoven threads
while avoiding unsubstantiatedgeneralisations. Facts are the driver
in this comprehensive analysis." -- Angelia R. Wilson, Times Higher
Education Review
"The text itself is sharply written and delivers an unequivocal
message accusing the Republican Party of skillfully manipulating
the people who live in the 11 states of the old Confederacy." --
Curtis Wilkie, The Washington Post
"The Southern Strategy has long been defined narrowly, as the
Republican appeal to southern whites who recoiled from the civil
rights revolution and its allies in the national Democratic Party
as a result. But as Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields make clear in
this provocative and powerful study, white backlash was only part
of the approach. A must-read for anyone seeking to make sense of
Southern politics, The Long Southern Strategy shows how
tensions over race, religion and gender relations worked to remake
the region, and to remake the Republican Party as well." -- Kevin
M. Kruse, co-author of Fault Lines: A History of the United States
since 1974
With The Long Southern Strategy, Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
widen the aperture to reveal the ways in which what we think of as
a time-limited, race-focused effort to court southern voters in the
1970s and 80s, was in fact a strategy carried in on two vitally
important and unexplored wings-gender anxiety and religious
fervor-and carefully packaged in uniquely southern flavors. This
deeply-researched, broadly drawn argument about the ways in
which
the Republican Party rebranded itself to appeal to and inflame
those anxieties will surely become crucial to our understanding of
both the long history of voting and organizing in the American
south, and to
reckoning with our current politicalÂclimate-that remains trapped
under the unfinished fallout from the Civil War." -- Dahlia
Lithwick, Senior Legal Correspondent, Slate
"You can't understand American politics unless you understand the
politics of the South. And, as Maxwell and Shields prove, you can't
understand Southern politics until you understand the racist,
evangelical, and gender elements of the GOP's Long Southern
Strategy-which spread far beyond the South and helped make Donald
Trump our first Confederate president." -- Bill Press, Radio Talk
Show Host
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