Southern Politics in the 1990s.(Review) (book review)

Perspectives on Political Science, June, 2000 by ANDERSON, DENNIS M.

Lamis, Alexander P., ed.

Southern Politics in the 1990s

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

490 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2374-9

Publication Date: September 1999

Southern Politics in the 1990s is a collection of essays by various contributors on the politics of the eleven states of the old Confederacy since the late 1980s and early 1990s. Alexander P. Lamis is a journalist who has put together previous works on southern politics and Ohio politics. The individual state chapters were written jointly by journalists and academics (from two to four authors); Lamis wrote the introductory and concluding chapters.

The two major elements of southern politics in the 1990s were (a) the growth of the Republican party, which...

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