"Sander's work is a valuable addition to the historiography of this latest "New South" and provides us with an important study of how the civil rights era affected the broad currents of southern and American politics and campaigns."
The Journal of American History
"This book is an interesting read and would be an especially good source for someone interested in the changing politics of the South."
H-net
"A solid step toward understanding how Southern politics evolved in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement."
"Mighty Peculiar Elections proves that the infamous political rhetoric of segregationists was dying a slow, uneven death by 1970."
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