The Elect and the South

The Changing Politics of the South Edited by William C. Havard

Louisiana State University Press, 755 pp„ $17.50 The South—as C. Vann Woodward demonstrated long ago—has for 110 years now been characterized by complexity, variety and internal contradiction, and not by any shared and single viewpoint. And yet, for the same length of time, the myth of a Southern way of life has persisted. The question that concerns the authors of The Changing Politics of the South is whether the South must not now, under the pressure of industrialization and urbanization, of the extended franchise, political redistricting and increased social mobility, become a two-party, two-class section of the country relatively indistinguishable from the rest of the nation. From their point of view such a result seems both in the long run inevitable and immediately desirable.

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The Changing Politics of the South Edited by William C. Havard

Louisiana State University Press, 755 pp„ $17.50 The South—as C. Vann Woodward demonstrated long ago—has for 110 years now been characterized by complexity, variety and internal contradiction, and not by any shared and single viewpoint. And yet, for the same length of time, the myth of a Southern way of life has persisted. The question that concerns the authors of The Changing Politics of the South is whether the South must not now, under the pressure of industrialization and urbanization, of the extended franchise, political redistricting and increased social mobility, become a two-party, two-class section of the country relatively indistinguishable from the rest of the nation. From their point of view such a result seems both in the long run inevitable and immediately desirable.