CHARLES D. HADLEY is Research Professor of Political Science at the University of New Orleans. He is coeditor (with T. Baker, L. Moreland, and R. Steed) of Political Parties in the Southern States: Party Activists in Partisan Coalitions (Praeger, 1990).
LEWIS BOWMAN is retired from the faculty of the department of Political Science at the University of South Florida.

Preface
The Rim South
Arkansas: Emerging Party Organizations by Diane D. Blair
Florida: From Freeboating to Real Parties by William E. Hulbary, Anne E. Kelley, and Lewis Bowman
North Carolina: Emerging Two-Party Politics by Charles Prysby
Tennessee: Democratic Party Resilience by David M. Brodsky and Simeon J. Brodsky
Texas: Yaller Dogs and Yuppies by Frank B. Feigert and Nancy L. McWilliams
Virginia: Experience with Democracy by John J. McGlennon
The Deep South
Alabama: Activists in a Competitive Age by Patrick R. Cotter
Georgia: Two-Party Political Reality? by Brad Lockerbie and John A. Clark
Louisiana: Two-Party Conservatism by Charles D. Hadley and Jennifer E. Horan
Mississippi: The "True Believers" Challenge the Party of Everyone by Stephen D. Shaffer and David A. Breaux
South Carolina: Toward a Two-Party System by Robert P. Steed, Laurence W. Moreland, and Tod A. Baker
Conclusion: Party Activists in the South by Harold W. Stanley
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

This groundbreaking volume describes and analyzes grassroots political party organizations in the South. Based upon surveys of county political party committee activists, conducted for the Southern Grassroots Party Activists Project and funded by the National Science Foundation, the work examines each of the 11 Southern states. Each chapter in the book, written by a scholar from the particular state, describes the general political history of that state over the 1954-1992 period, and then details state party organizations and activists-activists' backgrounds, politics, motivations for party activism, and party organization maintenance. The data and analysis presented depict political changes in the South, at both the state and national level, and provide for fascinating comparisons from state to state in the solid South.