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After Wallace: The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama,Used
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Product DescriptionAll Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangenessWith the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence, Alabama also experienced a wave of partisan realignment. A once solidly Democratic South was undergoing a tectonic political shift as white voters in large numbers abandoned their traditional Democratic political home for the revived Republicans, a party shaped in many respects by the Wallace presidential bids of 1968 and 1972 and the Reagan revolution of the 1980s.Alabama's own Democratic Party contributed to this massive shift with selfdestructive campaign behavior that disgusted many of its traditional voters who wound up staying home or voting for a littleknown Republican. From the gubernatorial election of 1986 came the shaky balance between the two parties that exists today.After Wallace recollects and analyzes how these shifts occurred, citing extensive newspaper coverage from the time as well as personal observations and poll data collected by the authors. This volume is certain to be a valuable work for any political scientist, especially those with an interest in Alabama or southern politics.ReviewCotter and Stovall deliver a thorough and compelling reconstruction of the campaign. . . . This book is a valuable case study of a modern southern election and a welcome addition to the debate over the end of the Solid South.Journal of Southern HistoryPolitical scientist Patrick Cotter and journalism professor James Stovall have continued their longstanding writing partnership with a look at 1986 Alabama gubernatorial election and its consequences. . . . After Wallace is a short and reliable chronicle of the 1986 race and is suitable for specialists, students, and general readers.Alabama ReviewAbout the AuthorPatrick R. Cotter is a professor of Political Science at The University of Alabama. He is coeditor of the Alabama Political Almanac and Disconnected: Public Opinion and Politics in Alabama.James Glen Stovall is the Edward J. Meeman Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the University of Tennesee Knoxville. With Patrick R. Cotter, he is coeditor of the Alabama Political Almanac and Disconnected.
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