Old Southern Politics

V.G. Key published Southern Politics in State and Nation; it was the study of the "old" southern politics. He focused on the years between 1920-1949 and analyzed the South's political practices, this included the maintenance and development of the one party system, the dropping rates of white political participation, and of course the excluding of blacks from politics. Key said, those of the South and those who love the South are left with the …

…have changed since 1950 and the views of Key and Cash of southern politics are the same and the same as the events. They had to do with racial segregation and desegregation and all of this probably could have changed if the whites from the South weren't racist. It could have been changed sooner. But these were their beliefs and they fought hard for what they believed in. The blacks just fought harder and they won.