In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as thei

During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in

The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the “Solid South” for the Democratic Party and how that solidarity began to crack with the advent

Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system—long referred to as the

The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of