Southern Political Party Activists

"A splendid book of first-rate, original research about grassroots party politics. John Clark, Charles Prysby, and their fellow scholars have truly advanced our understanding of the Democratic and Republican Parties as competing institutions in the modern South."—­Merle Black, Emory University, and coauthor of The Rise of Southern Republi

"Documents a crucial period of transition in southern politics by focusing on the men and women who do politics at the grassroots. Competently researched and well-written, this collection is a worthy successor to a long line of fine work on the politics of America's most distinctive region."—John C. Green, University of Akron

"Packed with data and grounded in theory, the editors and contributors have written an insightful book about partisan change in the American South."—Perspectives on Political Science

"A superlative collection with a first-rate lineup of scholars."—Ted G. Jelen