TY - GEN N2 - Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake. DO - 10.4159/9780674043466 DO - doi AB - Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake. T1 - The End of Southern Exceptionalism :Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South / AU - Shafer, Byron E., AU - Johnston, Richard, JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 CN - JK2295.A13 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1481593 KW - Political parties KW - Social classes KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties. SN - 9780674043466 TI - The End of Southern Exceptionalism :Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674043466 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674043466 ER -