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The impact of civil rights laws on the shift of white Southern voters from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the 1960s
Historians agree that white Southern voters moved from the Democratic to across the mid-20th century, but they vigorously debate when that shift accelerated and how centrally the Republican ""—a delib...
official platforms and public positions in the 1840s–1850s repeatedly defended the principle that Congress should not interfere with slavery in the states and territories, language that functionally e...
The primary architects and enforcers of law in the post‑ South were white Southern Democrats — the “Redeemer” governments that retook state legislatures after federal troops left in 1877 and then enac...
A substantial cohort of played a decisive role in passing the : roughly 27 Republican senators joined Democrats to invoke cloture against a Southern filibuster and a strong majority of voted for final...
Between 1960 and 1968 white Southern voters shifted sharply in who they believed was the party pushing school integration: in 1960 only a small minority associated Democrats with integration, but by 1...