Ebook: The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

The shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. Here, the authors refute that view: The true story, they argue, is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.