After Wallace : the 1986 contest for governor and political change in Alabama / Patrick R. Cotter and James Glen Stovall.

By:

Cotter, Patrick R

Contributor(s):

Stovall, James Glen

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780817387273
0817387277
9780817357542
0817357548

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: After Wallace.DDC classification:

324.9761/063 22

LOC classification:

F330 .C67 2009eb

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Contents:

The dominance of George Wallace -- Wallace's final exit -- The Wallace legacy -- The 1986 primary election -- Runoff -- Challenge -- Democratic aftermath -- The general election -- Consequences -- Explanations -- Appendix A: Survey methodology -- Appendix B: Election results.

Summary: All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness. With the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence, Alabama also experienced a wave of partisan realignment. A once solidly Democratic South was undergoing a tectonic political shift as white voters in l.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness. With the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence, Alabama also experienced a wave of partisan realignment. A once solidly Democratic South was undergoing a tectonic political shift as white voters in l.

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