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Canada and the United States

Randy Sanders. Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2002. Pp. xii, 218. $55.00.

By 1970, according to Randy Sanders, the American South was in the midst of a political sea change that resulted in the election of several moderate southern governors and an abatement of race baiting in political campaigns. Thanks to the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the subsequent registration of thousands of new African-American voters, politics in the South and the nation underwent a transformation on a scale that had not occurred since emancipation. The election in 1970 of a group of moderate southern governors who defeated segregationist opponents marked a watershed in southern politics that, as Sanders writes, "reflected the electorate's newfound attitude of racial moderation" (p. 1).

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