The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968

Places the State's Rights Democratic Party within the social and economic milieu of the 1930s and '40s South, tracing struggles between conservative and liberal Democrats over the region's future. Covers local activity in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, showing how, even without upsetting Truman in 1948, the Dixiecrats altered politics in the South by severing the traditional allegiance to the national Democratic Party and making way for the rise of the Republic Party.