Politics of the Southern United States
political science
Description
This assignment needs to be 300 words, or more, with proper APA citing and from 3 credible, academic, peer-reviewed sources (no encyclopedia’s, online magazines, or any other source that can be altered and doesn’t have a review process). This professor is harder on citing than any other professor I’ve had a course with, he will actually research the source so accuracy is a must.
Discussion:
Define and discuss the significance of three of the following terms:
-majority-minority Congressional districts
-Black Belt
-literacy tests
-poll taxes
-white supremacy
-states’ rights
-“black codes”
-Reconstruction
-“Birth of a Nation”
-Dixiecrats
-Strom Thurmond
-“Southern Manifesto”
-Citizens Council movement
-W.E. B. DuBois
-Jim Crow laws
The first source should be J. David Woodard, The New Southern Politics (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013), second edition.
