The transformation of Southern politics after World War II changed thepolitical life not just of this distinctive region, but of the entire nation.Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance fromDemocratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars andjournalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In thismyth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute thatview, one stretching all the way back...