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"This book is based primarily on the recollections of eight of the 12 Texas Killer Bees: Ron Clower, Lloyd Doggett, Glenn Kothman, Raul Longoria, Oscar Mauzy, Carl Parker, Bill Patman and A.R. "Babe" Schwartz. The woman who hid nine of them, Dora McDonald, also contributed her story."--From the preface.
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"Over the last half century, there has been a marked increase in ideological conservatism among African Americans, with nearly 50% of black Americans describing themselves as conservative in the 2000s, as compared to 10% in the 1970s. Support for redistributive initiatives has likewise declined. And yet, even as black Americans shift rightward on ideological and issue positions, Democratic Party identification has stayed remarkable steady, holding...
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"Analyzes changing patterns of immigration, settlement, demography, family structure, and religion, describing trends and their impacts on 2008 politics and beyond. Lays out implications for public policy and shows how these trends have shaped the Red and Blue divisions and might break apart those blocs in new and surprising ways"--Provided by publisher.
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"Many Americans reading today's headlines believe national politics has never been more polarized. Barbara Sinclair's Party Wars: Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making is the first book to described how the ideological gulf separating the two major parties developed and how today's fierce partisan competition affects the political process and national policy."--Jacket.
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"The Southern Strategy is traditionally understood as a Goldwater and Nixon-era effort by the Republican Party to win over disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with the GOP, the party abandoned its past support for civil rights and used racially coded language to capitalize on southern white racial angst. However, that decision was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just...
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American electoral politics since World War II stubbornly refuse to fit the theories of political scientists. The long collapse of the Democratic presidential majority does not look much like the classic realignments of the past: The Republicans made no corresponding gains in sub-presidential elections and never won the loyalty of a majority of the electorate in terms of party identification. And yet, the period shows a stability of Republican dominance...
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Carry the South, control the White House. What the Democratic Party could once take for granted--a region so vast and unified that its vote in presidential elections is nothing short of decisive--Republicans now claim as their own. The first book to chronicle this massive shift of electoral power, The Vital South explores the history, meaning, and ramifications of a Republican South in the realm of presidential politics. Timely, thorough, and clearly...
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Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened. Polarized presents commonsense benchmarks to measure polarization, draws data from a wide range of historical sources, and carefully assesses...
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