The Disruption of the Solid South

by George Brown Tindall, Spencer B. King Jr. (Foreword by), George Brown Tindall (Preface by)

Overview

“A brief and luminous account of a century of southern Republicanism” —Dewey Grantham, Vanderbilt University

In less than twenty years Republicans have created a viable opposition to the Democratic party in the South for the first time since the heyday of the Whigs in the 1840s. The turn in Republican fortunes below the Potomac, writes George Brown Tindall in this important new study, owes less to new strategies than to new conditions, for the Southern Strategy was not born yesterday. It was invented—or at least first pursued—in the 1870s by Rutherford B. Hayes, who called it his Southern Policy. Subsequent changes have been only variations on a theme by Hayes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393006636
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/1972
Series:	Norton Library Series , #663
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

George Brown Tindall spent many years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was an award-winning historian of the South with a number of major books to his credit, including The Emergence of the New South.


George Brown Tindall spent many years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was an award-winning historian of the South with a number of major books to his credit, including The Emergence of the New South.