A ngie M axwell and T odd S hields . The Long Southern Strategy

Among the geographic regions of the United States, the South, usually defined as the eleven states of the old Confederacy, is the most widely studied and analyzed, the topic of many postsecondary courses in fields as diverse as history, political science, cultural studies, American studies, and literature, among others. The South remains highly distinctive in politics and culture despite predictions that demographic and cultural changes in the region would render it over time much less so. Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields focus on the key aspect of the changing South that has transformed two-party competition and the US political landscape: the Republican Party’s long and ultimately successful strategy of shifting the region—once known as the “Solid South”—away from its long history of Democratic Party dominance (3). The authors hold nothing back in making a powerful case that the GOP validated and mobilized racial resentment, antifeminism, and religious extremism in its...

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