2012 Charleston Lecture—Earl Black, “The South and the 2012 Presidential Election” from CSAS on Vimeo.
The Center for the Study of the American South was pleased to host distinguished scholar of southern politics Earl Black for the 2012-13 Charleston Lecture in Southern Affairs. Dr. Black’s talk, titled “The South and the 2012 Presidential Election,” is a timely one. The 11-state South is the by far the largest region in the United States. Understanding the party battle in the South is therefore vitally important in assessing Democratic and Republican prospectsin the 2012 presidential election. The talk will focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the major parties in the South and then analyze the South’s changing role in the new regional structure of America’s presidential politics. Former Center director Harry Watson, now Atlanta Distinguished Alumni Professor of History, introduced Dr. Black.
Earl Black, Herbert S. Autrey Emeritus Professor, Rice University, is author of Southern Governors and Civil Rights and co-author (with his brother Merle Black) of Politics and Society in the South, The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected, The Rise of Southern Republicans, and Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics.