Of Byrd[s] and Bumpers

Since 1960, no area of the country has undergone greater political change than the South. One of the manifestations of this political transformation is a significant liberalization in the roll call voting behavior of Southern Democrats. The two most prominent explanations for this behavioral shift take a spatial perspective. One focuses on the leftward pull of an increasingly liberal Democratic constituency (due to the mobilization of black voters)-constituency-pull liberalism, and the second focuses on the leftward push of an increasingly powerful Republican Party-opponent-push liberalism. In contrast, we hypothesize that the liberalization of Democratic Senators from the South was a result of the interaction between the rise of the Republican Party and the mobilization of the black electorate. Using data for Southem Senators and states from 1960 to 1995, we implement a time series cross-sectional (TSCS) analysis to evaluate the competing explanations. We show that the liberalization of voting pattems was a direct result of the joint growth of the Republican Party and the black electorate. Clearly, the effects of the opponent-push and constituency-pull dynamics are interdependent. As the first time series cross-sectional analysis of the effect of black mobilization and Republican strength on Southem Democratic Senators, this research contributes to the study of Southem politics, party systems, and the dynamics of legislative representation in a democratic system

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