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After Wallace: The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama

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All Alabama elections are colorful, however the 1986 gubernatorial contest might trump them desirous about its sheer strangeness. With the retirement of an aging and sick George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the place of work were in a position to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was once conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence, Alabama also experienced a wave of partisan realignment. A once solidly Democratic South was once 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 self-destructive campaign behavior that disgusted many of its traditional voters who wound up staying home or voting for a little bit-known Republican. From the gubernatorial election of 1986 came the shaky balance between the two parties that exists as of late.

After Wallace recollects and analyzes how these shifts occurred, citing extensive newspaper coverage from the time in addition to 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.


 

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