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White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, The AAG Review of Books, 8:3, 140-142,
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become concerned about issues, such as climate change, Grohsgal, D., and K. M. Kruse. 2019. How the Republican
that cannot be accommodated in the southern-way-of-life majority emerged, 50 years later. The Atlantic 6
framework. Finally, there is some suggestion that the entire August. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
enterprise only works well, at least beyond the South, if 2019/08/emerging-republican-majority/595504/
the messages about hierarchy, patriarchy, and holy writ are Hopkins, D. A. 2017. Red fighting blue: How geography and
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Today the Republican agenda has become much more Cambridge University Press.
wholeheartedly and openly hostile and insulting toward Hopkins, D. J. 2018. The increasingly United States: How
anyone outside the favored core group of white Americans and why American political behavior nationalized. Chicago,
(Grohsgal and Kruse 2019). Could this lead back to the IL: University of Chicago Press.
southern containment of the very strategy that worked so Jones, R. P. 2016. The end of white Christian America. New
well for so long in southernizing the Republican Party and York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
the country at large? Phillips, K. P. 1969. The emerging Republican majority. New
Rochelle, NY: Arlington House.
Richardson, H. C. 2020. How the South won the Civil War:
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