| Sumario: | A study was conducted to update an analysis of the relationship between income and political partisanship in the South. Research published in 1993 by Richard Nadeau and Harold W. Stanley demonstrated the change in partisanship in the South from inverse class polarization to normal class polarization. The latest findings, based on data from the 1950s to the end of the 1990s that provided a longer time perspective and even greater partisan change for analysis, reveal that class-based partisanship in the South is now considerably stronger than in the rest of the country, and that greater polarization in the South has occurred in the context of growing class polarization in the non-South. Furthermore, the data suggest a South not marked by white partisan solidarity but by white partisanship structured by economic class divisions.
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