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Southernization of the Nation and Nationalization of the South: Racial Conservatism, Social Welfare and White Partisans in the United States, 1956–92

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2001

JONATHAN A. COWDEN
JONATHAN A. COWDEN
Affiliation:
Department of Government, Cornell University.
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Abstract

Many scholars and pundits believe that the 1964 presidential election between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson disrupted the New Deal order and ushered in a sixth party system anchored in part by race issues. But, curiously, the conventional wisdom has not fared well empirically. In this article, I employ disaggregated survey data and novel methodological tools to identify temporal patterns in the relationships between partisanship, New Deal issues and race issues. My conclusions are as follows: (1) the association between race issues and partisanship has switched signs in the South; (2) a racial axis of cleavage has opened up outside the South; (3) the New Deal issue axis has grown in the South; and (4) New Deal issues continue to cleave partisans outside the South.

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Original Article
Information
British Journal of Political Science , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 277 - 301
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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