Jonathan Bartho

Whistling Dixie (eBook, ePUB)

Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party

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Produktbeschreibung

Jonathan Bartho's Whistling Dixie explores the interdependent political relationship between Ronald Reagan and the white conservative South, a relationship that had a profound impact on Reagan's own career, on the political landscape of the South and the entire United States, and on the identity of the modern Republican Party. Millions of southerners were attracted to the GOP by Reagan's anti-statist ideology and their affection for the man himselfan affection that had been built over decades of appearances in the region. The support of these white southern conservatives was crucial to Reagan's political success, ultimately propelling him to the White House in 1980. Conversely, by supporting Reagan's presidential campaigns, southern conservatives were able to influence the direction of the Republican Party and begin restoring their region to a position of power in Washington.

Bartho deftly provides a new perspective on Reagan's political career and the Republican Party of the Reagan era while detailing the often-rancorous philosophical differences between Reaganism and southern conservatism and the resulting political conflicts. Whistling Dixie highlights a divide in the Republican Party and in American conservatism that has often been overlookeda divide that laid the foundations for the GOP's southernization and ultimately led to the rise of Donald Trump.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kansas
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780700636501
• Artikelnr.: 75675031

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Bartho is an independent scholar and researcher who specializes in US History.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Prologue
* Part I: Courting the South
* 1. “He Brought Them the Gospel”: Ronald Reagan, the White South, and
the GOP, 1953–1975
* 2. “This Is Reagan Country“: the South in Reagan’s Presidential
Campaigns, 1976–1980
* Part II: Southern Interest
* 3. “We Really Seem to Be Putting a Coalition Together”: Boll Weevil
Democrats and the Reagan Revolution
* 4. “Free Trade Will Destroy America!”: Reaganism Meets the Southern
Economic Agenda
* Part III: Southern Priorities
* 5. “It Was Jesus That Gave Us This Victory”: Ronald Reagan and
Southern Evangelicals
* 6. “Affirmative Action Is Un-American”: Southern Racial Conservatism
and the Reagan White House
* Epilogue
* Afterword: Republican Civil War in the Age of Trump
* Notes
* Select Bibliography
* Index