TY - BOOK ID - 135049920 TI - The irony of the solid south : Democrats, Republicans, and race, 1865-1944 PY - 2013 SN - 081738670X 9780817386702 9780817317935 0817317937 PB - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political parties KW - History KW - Democratic Party (U.S.) KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) KW - Southern States KW - Politics and government KW - Race relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135049920 AB - The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the "Solid South" for the Democratic Party and how that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II. Relying on a sophisticated analysis of secondary research-as well as a wealth of deep research in primary sources such as letters, diaries, interviews, court cases, newspapers, and other archival materials-Glenn Feldman argues in The Irony of the Solid South that the history of the solid Democratic south is actually marked by several ironies that involve a co ER -