Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: has the south become republican? / Glenn Feldman -- Voting for God and the GOP: the role of evangelical religion in the emergence of the Republican South / Daniel K. Williams -- "Out-democratin' the democrats": religious colleges and the rise of the Republican Party in the South: a case study / Barclay Key -- With god on our side: moral and religious issues, southern culture, and Republican realignment in the South / Frederick V. Slocum -- A suburban story: the rise of Republicanism in postwar Georgia, 1948-1980 / Tim Boyd -- Virginia's northern strategy: southern segregationists and the route to national conservatism / George Lewis -- Kennedyphobia and the rise of Republicans in Northwest Louisiana, 1960-1962 / J. Eric Pardue -- Race, grassroots activism, and the evolution of the Republican right in South Carolina, 1952-1974 / John W. White -- A southern road less traveled: the 1966 gubernatorial election and (Winthrop) Rockefeller Republicanism in Arkansas / John A. Kirk -- "Gun cotton": southern industrialists, international trade, and the Republican Party in the 1950s / Katherine Rye Jewell -- The first southern strategy: the Taft and the Dewey/Eisenhower factions in the GOP / Michael Bowen -- The black cabinet: economic civil rights in the Nixon Administration / Leah M. Wright -- M. E. Bradford, the Reagan right, and the resurgence of Confederate nationalism / Fred Arthur Bailey -- Conclusion: America's appointment with destiny: a cautionary tale / Glenn Feldman.