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A 3 page book review that examines Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction Numan Bartley and Hugh Graham (1975). This book charts the political development of the South from the time of the New Deal and World War II through to the 1972 presidential election, which witnessed a Republican sweep of the once solidly Democratic South. No additional sources cited.
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by the political and social forces of that era. This period ended with the Reconstruction and the South reemerged as Democratic stronghold. In their text Southern Politics and the Second
Reconstruction, authors Numan Bartley and Hugh Graham chart the continuing political development of the South, from the time of the New Deal and World War II through to the 1972
presidential election, which witnessed a Republican sweep of the once "solid" South. As their title suggests, this political outcome is viewed as a "second Reconstruction" (Bartley and Graham xv). However,
this outcome is seen by the authors not as a sign of true change, but rather as a "quite traditional" product of continuing southern conservatism under a "new partisan label"
(Bartley and Graham 200). Barley and Graham pictured their work as a continuation of V.O. Key Jr.s 1949 test Southern Politics in State and Nation (18). As with the
Keys work, they provide detailed analysis of political party activity, their candidates and the pertinent issues that sway the course of southern politics. In so doing, the authors show how
the South shifted political across the spectrum over the post-war decades from being solidly Democratic towards being Republican. The authors begin by describing the populist-New Deal legacy that existed
in the South following World War II. This section of the book describes the "one party politics" of the region, a time when Republicans were simply not elected in
the South--at any level of government. Offering a detailed analysis of political and social factors, the authors charge how this situation began to slowly change, describing, for example, how
Eisenhower and the Republicans won 48.1 percent of the southern vote in 1952 and an even greater percentage in the 1956 election (Bartley and Graham 90). In their concluding
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