%0 Journal Article
%T Before and After: The 2008 Election and the Second ¡°Solid South¡±
%A James B. Cobb
%J American Studies Journal
%D 2012
%I American Studies Journal
%X When the general election campaign began in the fall of 2008, few expected Barack Obama to make much of a showing in the overwhelmingly republican South. Yet as the first African American to head a major party ticket, Obama did strikingly well in a region not particularly known for its recent sympathies for white Democrats, much less black ones. The South¡¯s somewhat surprising role in the 2008 presidential election can best be appreciated in the context of a regional political tradition which, since the end of Reconstruction, has been marked less by true two-party competition than sustained periods of domination by each.
%K Barack Obama
%K United States
%K America
%K South
%K politics
%K presidency
%K election
%K campaign
%U http://www.asjournal.org/archive/56/206.html