Description
Book SynopsisMellow offers a new way to comprehend the meaning and significance of American partisanship for our time and for the future.
Trade ReviewMellow gives a valuable account of the political economy of the shift, linking regional differences in congressional votes on trade, welfare, and abortion to changes in regional political economy, particularly the move of industry from the North and Pacific to the South and interior West. Choice 2008 A solid study of how region affects partisanship in contemporary America. -- Gregory L. Schneider Annals of Iowa 2009 Mellow's work offers important insights into the development of the American party system and will help us understand its future. We should keep her thesis in mind. -- Andrew Reeves Political Science Quarterly 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Recasting Region
2. Regime Change: From the New Deal to the Republican Revolution
3. Sun Belt Rising: Globalization and Regional Changes on Trade Policy
4. Change Comes to the Cotton Belt: Race, Region, and the Politics of Welfare Policy
5. The Political Resurrection of The Bible Belt: Religion, Modernization, and the Intensification of Abortion Politics
6. A House Divided: The Geography of Parties and Conflict
Appendix A: Research Method and Case Selection
Appendix B: Congressional Vote Analysis
Notes
Index
