“The South and the 2012 Presidential Election”
Thursday, September 13, 2012
5:00 p.m.
Hyde Hall, UNC Campus
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
The Center for the Study of the American South is pleased to announce that distinguished scholar of southern politics Earl Black will deliver the 2012-2013 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, will introduce 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.