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Simon & Schuster, January 2008
Trade Paperback, 352 pages
ISBN-10: 074329016X
ISBN-13: 9780743290166
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Two generations ago Kevin Phillips challenged Republicans to envision a southern-based national majority. In Whistling Past Dixie, Tom Schaller issues an equally transformative challenge to Democrats: Build a winning coalition outside the South.
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Browse Inside Whistling Past Dixie"Thank goodness for Whistling Past Dixie by Tom Schaller. His perceptive blueprint for de-southernizing our politics couldn't come at a better time." -- Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas?
-- Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas?
"Now that Dixie politicians and George W. Bush have remade the national GOP in their own image -- messianic adventurism in the Middle East, Texas-style corruption, bungled oil strategy, and fealty to radical religion -- the new Republican South is turning into a symbol of party parochialism and excess. Tom Schaller's Whistling Past Dixie is the best analysis to date of how the Democrats may be able to take advantage." -- Kevin Phillips, author of American Theocracy
-- Kevin Phillips, author of American Theocracy
"The one strategist who fundamentally predicted the new geography of partisan American politics is Tom Schaller, a University of Maryland political scientist whose book Whistling Past Dixie appeared several months before November's elections."- Harold Meyerson, The Washington Post
"Timely.... Schaller and his fellow advocates of a Rocky Mountain strategy are persuasive....There can be no denying that the demographic transformation has opened large parts of the West to political change."- E. J. Dionne, The American Prospect
"Schaller's...overall argument stands up pretty well after the 2006 elections. The Democrats gained less in the South than elsewhere last fall, and where they did gain it was usually in border states, via notably conservative candidates who did not win by much."- Nicholas Lemann, The New Republic
