New politics of the old South an introduction to Southern politics

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Southern politics in the twenty-first century / Charles S. Bullock III and Mark J. Rozell -- South Carolina : change and continuity in the Palmetto State / Robert P. Steed and Laurence W. Moreland -- Georgia : the GOP finally takes over / Charles S. Bullock III -- Alabama : from one party to competition, and maybe back again / Patrick R. Cotter -- Mississippi : emergence of a modern two-party state / David A. Breaux, Stephen D. Shaffer, and Hilary B. Gresham -- Louisiana : African Americans, Republicans, and party competition / Wayne Parent and Huey Perry -- Virginia : the new politics of the Old Dominion / Mark J. Rozell -- North Carolina : two-party competition continues into the twenty-first century / Charles Prysby -- Tennessee : once a bluish state, now reddish one / Michael Nelson -- Arkansas : the post-2000 elections-continued GOP growth or a party that has peaked? / Andrew Dowdle and Gary D. Wekkin -- Oklahoma : evangelicals and the secular realignment / Gary W. Copeland, Rebecca J. Cruise, Ronald Keith Gaddie -- Florida : political change, 1950-2004 / Michael J. Scicchitano and Richard K. Scher -- Texas : Lone Star (wars) State / James W. Lamare ... [et al.] -- The soul of the South : religion and Southern politics in the twenty-first century / Lyman A. Kellstedt ... [et al.].