xiv, 296 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Southern regional perspectives on the 1988 election : The nomination process and Super Tuesday / Charles S. Bullock III. The Reagan legacy and party politics in the south / Harold W. Stanley -- The campaign and its consequences: the deep south : Alabama: further steps toward a competitive party system / Patrick R. Cotter. Georgia: ripe for the picking -- presidential politics in the peach state / Alan I. Abramowitz and Wendy Davis. Louisiana: race, republicans, and religion / Charles D. Hadley. Mississippi: electoral conflict in a nationalized state / Stephen D. Shaffer. South Carolina: different cast, same drama in the palmetto state / Laurence W. Moreland, Robert P. Steed, and Tod A. Baker

The campaign and its consequences: the rim south : Arkansas: reluctant republicans in razorback land / Diane D. Blair. Florida: the republican surge continues / William E. Hulbary, Anne E. Kelley and Lewis Bowman. North Carolina: the confluence of national, regional, and state forces / Charles L. Prysby. Tennessee: a house divided / David M. Brodsky and Robert H. Swansbrough. Texas: toward and ideological politics / Dennis S. Ippolito. Virginia: a republican encore in the Old Dominion / Larry Sabato -- The 1988 presidential election and the future of southern politics / Earl Black and Merle Black

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