| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The Rise of Southern Republicans. By Earl Black and Merle Black. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2002. xii, 442 pp. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-674-01248-8.)
Using a plethora of statistics, diagrams, and charts, Earl Black and Merle Black effectively track the transformation of the South from solidly Democratic into a competitive two-party region. They use Senate and House elections to "examine the regional causes and national consequences of rising southern Republicanism" (p. 2). Recognizing the role of the growing diversity of the South in this metamorphosis, the authors particularly emphasize class, race, gender, and religion.	1
Black and Black begin with the "solid South." They rightly point out that racial issues both originated and then maintained the "Democratic juggernaut" (p. 40). Southern Democrats differed about other issues, but they always voted to protect white supremacy. In addition, southern Democrats benefited from regularly returning the same men to the Senate and the House year after year. By constantly re-creating the solid South, Democrats discouraged Republican opposition. Federal intervention in racial matters in the 1950s served to reinforce the conservative tendencies within the party and intensify dedication to the segregation system.	. . .

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