A paler shade of red: the 2008 presidential election in the South

Southern elections, southern politics / Robert P. Steed and Laurence W. Moreland

The setting and the nominating process. The continued convergence of demographics and issues / Scott E. Buchanan ; The 2008 presidential nomination process / John A. Clark

Elections in the Deep South. Alabama : electoral continuity and racial voting / Patrick R. Cotter ; Georgia : where competitiveness came late / Charles S. Bullock III ; Louisiana : from political bellwether to Republican stronghold / Robert E. Hogan and Eunice H. McCarney ; Mississippi : Democrats fight for relevance in an increasingly Republican state / David A. Breaux and Stephen D. Shaffer ; South Carolina : a paler shade of red? / Cole Blease Graham

Elections in the rim South. Arkansas : he's not one of (most of) us / Jay Barth, Janine A. Parry, and Todd G. Shields ; Florida : Obama gives GOP the blues / Jonathan Knuckey ; North Carolina : change and continuity in 2008 / Charles Prysby ; Tennessee : cracker barrel realignment / Ronald Keith Gaddie, with the assistance of Michael D. Jones ; Texas : after the Bush era / Brian Arbour and Mark McKenzie ; Virginia : the new math of blue Virginia / John J. McGlennon

Don't whistle past Dixie yet / H. Gibbs Knotts.