The South in Red and Purple: Southernized Republicans, Diverse Democrats

Politically, the South is not an assembly of states, acting in unison, in the grip of one party. The region is not one South, undivided." This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.