Underscores the pivotal, and at times controlling, role played by interest groups in southern politics.

Tucked between the larger commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia and overshadowed by the political maneuverings of its neighbor, Washington, D.C., Maryland

The latest presidential election demonstrated the national importance of the shifting demographics and partisan leanings of the Southern states. When it first a

Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.