The 1994 elections represented a watershed year for southern Republicans. For the first time since Reconstruction, they gained control of a majority of national

In The Long Southern Strategy, Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields trace the consequences of the GOP's decision to court white voters in the South. Over time, Republ

The Populist Movement was the largest mass movement for political and economic change in the history of the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of th

The Origins of the Southern Strategy is a detailed study of the rise of two-party competition in South Carolina during the mid-twentieth century. In 1950, when

The Southern Strategy was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what Angie Maxwell and Todd S