Two professors from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville will give a public lecture this week about a strategy by the national Republican Party to attract white Southern Democratic voters in the 1960s.
Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, the speakers, say in their book -- The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics -- that, to attract Democratic white Southern voters, the GOP dropped support for Civil Rights; removed the Equal Rights Amendment from its platform; promoted old, traditional gender roles; and aligned itself with the conservative, religious political movement.
Maxwell is director of the Diane Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, an associate professor of political science, and holder of the Diane Blair Endowed Professorship in Southern Studies at UA. Shields is the dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of political science at UA.
Their lecture, presented by the Clinton Foundation and University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, will be held at Sturgis Hall, which is on the Clinton Presidential Center grounds, 1200 President Clinton Ave., in Little Rock, from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. Thursday. Admission is free and open to the public.
Reservations are available by emailing [email protected] or by calling (501) 683-5239.
The speech will be streamed live at https://bit.ly/2k1DZ80 on Thursday and available for later viewing at https://bit.ly/2N1BFGs.
Metro on 09/16/2019