Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Shifting South: Understanding Geographic Polarization and Partisan Change
Chapter 2: Migration and Partisan Change: Movers and Stayers
Chapter 3: Population Growth and Partisan Change in the South
Chapter 4: Players in the Migration Game: Understanding the Distinctiveness of Movers
Chapter 5: Migrant Magnets: How Movers Change the Politics of Their New and the Politics of the Homes They Leave Behind
Chapter 6: How Movers Change the Politics of Their New Homes and the Places they Leave: The Cases of People of Color
Chapter 7: The Special Case of Retirees: When the Elderly Move
Chapter 8: Movers, Stayers, and the End of Southern Politics?
Endnotes
Bibliography

About the Author

Irwin L. Morris is the Kretzer Distinguished Professor of Humanities and the Executive Director of the School for Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. His most recent book is Reactionary Republicans: How the Tea Party in the House Paved the Way for Trump's Victory (co-authored with Bryan Gervais).

Reviews

"Recent elections have shown parts of the South beginning to realign back to the Democratic Party. The realignment of parts of the South has significant implications for national politics. Morris is one of the first scholars to explore this incipient change in partisan loyalties. Using counties as his unit of analysis, this careful study makes a valuable contribution that charts how voters moving to urban areas differ from those who stay in rural communities.
As Morris documents, these choices are transforming the region's politics." -- Charles S. Bullock, III, Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia
"Morris offers the broadest argument yet for how relocation patterns are changing the balance of party politics in the American South. Regardless of where they come from, people who choose to move to places in the South are more likely to affiliate with the Democratic Party than their counterparts who stay behind. This work tells us that the extant Republican domination of southern electoral politics is on borrowed time." -- Seth C. McKee, Professor of
Political Science, Oklahoma State University