The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman's groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century.

Glenn Feldman is a professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the author of The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944 and Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949, and the editor of Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government.