Southern Political Party Activists: Patterns of Conflict and Change, 1991-2001

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Southern Political Party Activists: Patterns of Conflict and Change, 1991-2001. Edited by John A. Cloark and Charles L. Prysby. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. ix, 254; $65, cloth; $25, paper.)

This collection of articles considers the state of political parries in the eleven former Confederate states by examining the activities and attitudes of their leadership. The eleven substantive essays in the book, most delivered as papers at the 2002 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, compare the results of surveys of party activists in 1991 and 2001 conducted under the aegis of the National Science Foundation-funded Southern Grassroots Party …