How The South Was Won And The Nation Lost

Download or read book How the South was won and the nation lost written by Philipp Adorf and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 presidential election has shown that the Republican Party is at a crossroads. While a Trump candidacy took even the most seasoned political analysts by surprise, the rise of racially charged anti-elitism within the Grand Old Party has been an ongoing project for the last half a century, initiated and deliberately driven by its leaders and strategists who identified the former Confederacy as the foundation for conservative majorities. This book charts the path of the party's ever increasing Southernization and simultaneous Evangelicalization while providing a detailed assessment of the GOP's future chances of fashioning majorities in a country that is undergoing momentous demographic changes.