Angie Maxwell is the Director of the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, and holder of the Diane D. Blair Endowed Professorship in Southern Studies at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of the The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness.
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The Southern Strategy is traditionally understood as a Goldwater and Nixon-era effort by the Republican Party to win over disaffected white voters in the Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with the GOP, the party abandone... SEE MORE