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- Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
- Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Republican Party and the South: Some Preliminaries
- Part I The South and National Republican Party Politics, 1865–1968
- Photos
- Part II Southern Republican Party Politics at the State Level
- Index
2 - The Republican Party and the South: Some Preliminaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2020
- Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
- Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Republican Party and the South: Some Preliminaries
- Part I The South and National Republican Party Politics, 1865–1968
- Photos
- Part II Southern Republican Party Politics at the State Level
- Index
Summary
We use this chapter to do three things: (1) discuss the various data and measures – some existing and some new – that we will use throughout the book; (2) identify how apportionment of Southern delegates was determined, discuss how Southern delegation size varied over time, and explain why the South was able to maintain a significant presence at GOP conventions while not providing any electoral votes for generations; and (3) explain why focusing on factional GOP politics in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South matters for understanding the emergence of the Republican Party as an electoral force in the late twentieth-century South, through an innovative multivariate analysis of “whiteness politics.”
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020