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The Three Governors Controversy
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official.
This is the first full-length examination of that episode, which wasn't just a crazy quirk of Georgia politics (though it was that) but the decisive battle in a struggle between the state's progressive and rustic forces that had continued since the onset of the Great Depression. In 1946, rural forces aided by the county unit system, Jim Crow intimidation of black voters, and the Talmadge machine's \"loyal 100,000\" voters united to claim the governorship.
In the aftermath, progressive political forces in Georgia would shrink into obscurity for the better part of a generation. In this volume is the story of how the political, governmental, and Jim Crow social institutions not only defeated Georgia's progressive forces but forestalled their effectiveness for a decade and a half.
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Slingshot
Exploration of how nationally prominent House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the battle for Republican primary for Virginia's 7th Congressional District to college professor David Brat, an unknown political rookie.
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Religious Nationalism and Perceptions of Muslims and Islam
We test for relationships between anti-Muslim attitudes and opinion and competing religious identity and religious belief variables in an evangelical Christian constituency. Original survey data from a statewide sample of 508 likely voters in Oklahoma are subjected to a robust regression analysis to determine (1) indicators of holding Christian nationalist beliefs and (2) the relationship between belief measures of Christian nationalism, evangelical Christian identity, and subsequent anti-Muslim sentiment. Christian nationalism is more prevalent among self-identified evangelicals. Christian nationalist beliefs and strong belief in Biblical literalism are significantly related to negative and restrictive views of Muslims. Anti-Muslim sentiments in the form of general disapproval and the desire to limit Muslim worship are shaped more by beliefs than identities or behaviors. Evangelical self-identification does not help us disentangle domestic opinion regarding Muslims as well as measures that disentangle beliefs from identity.
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The Emergence of Bifactional Politics
From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Georgia and the rest of the South were one-party states, loyal to the party of Jefferson and Jackson.¹ After the Democrats quashed the Populist revolt of the 1890s, Georgia, like the other southern states, moved to disfranchise both black and poor white voters. This one-party environment in the first half of the twentieth century did not mean there was a lack of political competition.
Throughout most of the South, intense, dynamic competition, often fought out through informal or personal organizations within party primaries, characterized the Democrats. Southern state parties managed an uneasy
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Georgia in a State of Change
In the 1940 gubernatorial campaign, Herman Talmadge, acting as his father’s campaign manager, presented the voters with a “new” Gene Talmadge. This new Talmadge concentrated on undoing the financial damage of the Rivers administration and dealing with pressing problems in education and government administration rather than devolving into antics and political feuds that distracted from governing. But the new model quickly reverted to the politics of the past. Within months of taking office, Talmadge interfered with the workings of the state’s university system by manipulating the board of regents. His attack on academic freedom led to a heated confrontation with
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