Foreword / Jack Bass -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : the literature of Southern politics / Robert P. Steed and Laurence W. Moreland -- Southern political party development since World War II / Charles Prysby -- Who wants to party? activists and changing Southern politics / John J. McGlennon -- Unfinished business: writing the civil rights movement / Richard K. Scher -- Race and southern politics : the special case of congressional districting / Richard l. Engstrom -- Writing about women in Southern politics / Penny M. Miller and Lee R. Remington -- Reflections on scholarship in religion and Southern politics / Ted G. Jelen -- Population shifts change a region's politics: the old south morphs into the new / Susan A. Macmanus ; with the assistance of Brittany L. Penberthy and Thomas A. Watson -- Issues, ideology, and political opinions in the South / Patrick R. Cotter, Stephen D. Shaffer, and David A. Breaux -- Presidential elections and the South / Harold W. Stanley -- Congress and the South / Stanley P. Berard -- Southern governors and legislatures / Branwell DuBose Kapeluck, Robert P. Steed, and Laurence W. Moreland -- Conclusion: looking back and looking forward : a research agenda for Southern politics / John A. Clark.