Countering the common narrative that the shifting politics of Virginia is a recent phenomenon driven by population growth in the urban corridor, the contributors to this volume consider the antecedents to the rise of Virginia as a two-party ...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
In Virginia, as in all of the one-party South, the Democratic primary election served for decades as more than a mere nominating process.
The Democratic Party Primary in Virginia: Tantamount to Election No Longer
Nancy L. Johnson ( R ) POSTWAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT Democratic Total Vote Total Vote Republican Candidate Year Vote Vote Candidate Rep . Dem . 1996 ** 1992 ** 1988 1984 1980 1976 1972 1968 1964 1960 1956 1952 1948 1,392,614 1,616,332 ...
"Virginia in the Vanguard" continues the story of Virginia's reemergence as a competitive, trend-setting state.
This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century.
I guess we can use the title of the popular soap opera , " As the World Turns , " to place the United States vis - a - vis minorities in the United States and regions of the world inhabited by people of color into a proper context .
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Sources on State Interest Groups Abney, Glen, and Thomas P. Lauth. “Interest Group Influence in the States: A View of Subsystem Politics.” Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, ...