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This is an extensive analysis of African‐Americans' and whites' perceptions of each other, and the relationships between racial attitudes and social‐welfare preferences, cultural traditionalism, levels of trust toward government, and levels of political conceptualization. The project consists of two phases. First, a mail survey and both individual and focus group interviews were conducted in 1995. Second, a telephone survey of eastern North Carolina residents was conducted in 1996. Both the surveys and the interviews revealed expected differences between the opinions of black and white people—for example, perceptions of prejudice, equality of opportunities and integration. In addition to six questions which were asked in 1995, the 1996 telephone survey collected black and white people's opinions of four strategies for ameliorating racial friction. Not only did the survey show that one of the four proposed strategies seems viable to both black and white people but also that, again, division between the races is remarkably intense.

Southern politics has changed dramatically during the past half century. While new developments have touched virtually every aspect of the region's politics, change has been especially marked in the South's political party and electoral systems. Southern Parties and Elections explores the contemporary developments in party realignment and examines the relationship between regional party change and electoral behavior and the larger patterns in national politics

There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War II. Social, demographic, economic, and political changes have altered significantly the region long considered the nation's most distinctive. There is less agreement, however, about the extent to which the forces of nationalization have eroded the major elements of Southern distinctiveness. Although this volume does not purport to settle the debate on Southern political change, it does present a variety of recent evidence that helps put this important debate into perspe