Angie Maxwell is the Director of the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, an associate professor of political science, and holder of the Diane D. Blair Endowed Professorship in Southern Studies at the University of Arkansas. She is the co-editor of several volumes and the author of the The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness, which won the Southern Political Science Association's 2015 V. O. Key Award for best book in Southern Politics. Todd Shields is the Dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of political science at the University of Arkansas. He is the co-author or co-editor of several books, including The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns, which won the American Political Science Association's 2009 Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in Political Psychology.
Based on extensive research, including qualitative and quantitative
scholarship (with survey data included), the book is filled with
insights into recent history and the current state of politics in
the South and the nation. Although challenging, it largely avoids
disciplinary jargon and therefore is accessible to a broader
audience. Highly relevant, and deserving of a broad readership. ...
Summing up: Highly recommended
*C. K. Piehl, CHOICE *
Maxwell and Shields have contributed mightily to our understanding
of the nation's most consequential electoral transformation.
*Journal of American History*
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields demonstrate in their fine The Long
Southern Strategy just how the party of Lincoln became the party of
the South. Their book permits us to better understand how the
southern-oriented views of identifiers of that party blended with
those of the North to create a truly national political opinion, in
ways in which a northern and southern Democratic majority never
did.
*John H. Aldrich, Duke University, Perspectives on Politics*
This volume provides scholars of the South's partisan realignment
with revealing data depicting the centrality of white southern
identity to the GOP's repeated efforts to win the region ...
scholars seeking insight into white southern voters' identity --
and how identity translates into behavior at the polls -- will find
much to mine in this volume.
*Katherine Rye Jewell, North Carolina Historical Review*
In The Long Southern Strategy, Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
demonstrate that this strategy was not, as political scientists
might be tempted to think, just about electoral politics. Instead,
to fully understand the history (and contemporary implications) of
the southern strategy, one must look at the interdependence of
racism, religion and patriarchy. ... Maxwell and Shields encourage
the reader to see the intricacies of these interwoven threads while
avoiding unsubstantiatedgeneralisations. Facts are the driver in
this comprehensive analysis.
*Angelia R. Wilson, Times Higher Education Review *
The text itself is sharply written and delivers an unequivocal
message accusing the Republican Party of skillfully manipulating
the people who live in the 11 states of the old Confederacy.
*Curtis Wilkie, The Washington Post*
The Southern Strategy has long been defined narrowly, as the
Republican appeal to southern whites who recoiled from the civil
rights revolution and its allies in the national Democratic Party
as a result. But as Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields make clear in
this provocative and powerful study, white backlash was only part
of the approach. A must-read for anyone seeking to make sense of
Southern politics, he Long Southern Strategy shows how tensions
over race, religion and gender relations worked to remake the
region, and to remake the Republican Party as well.
*Kevin M. Kruse, co-author of Fault Lines: A History of the United
States since 1974*
With The Long Southern Strategy, Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields
widen theaperture to reveal the ways in which what we think of as a
time-limited, race-focused effort to court southern voters in the
1970s and 80s, was in fact a strategy carried in on two vitally
important and unexplored wings-gender anxiety and religious
fervor-and carefully packaged in uniquely southern flavors. This
deeply-researched, broadly drawn argument about the ways in which
the Republican Party rebranded itself to appeal to and inflame
those anxieties will surely become crucial to our understanding of
both the long history of voting and organizing in the American
south, and to reckoning with our current political climate-that
remains trapped under the unfinished fallout from the Civil
War.
*Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Legal Correspondent, Slate*
You can't understand American politics unless you understand the
politics of the South. And, as Maxwell and Shields prove, you can't
understand Southern politics until you understand the racist,
evangelical, and gender elements of the GOP's Long Southern
Strategy-which spread far beyond the South and helped make Donald
Trump our first Confederate president.
*Bill Press, Radio Talk Show Host*
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