CHARLES D. HADLEY is Research Professor of Political Science at the University of New Orleans. He is coeditor (with T. Baker, L. Moreland, and R. Steed) of Political Parties in the Southern States: Party Activists in Partisan Coalitions (Praeger, 1990).LEWIS BOWMAN is retired from the faculty of the department of Political Science at the University of South Florida.

• Preface The Rim South Arkansas: Emerging Party Organizations by Diane D. Blair Florida: From Freeboating to Real Parties by William E. Hulbary, Anne E. Kelley, and Lewis Bowman North Carolina: Emerging Two-Party Politics by Charles Prysby Tennessee: Democratic Party Resilience by David M. Brodsky and Simeon J. Brodsky Texas: Yaller Dogs and Yuppies by Frank B. Feigert and Nancy L. McWilliams Virginia: Experience with Democracy by John J. McGlennon The Deep South Alabama: Activists in a Competitive Age by Patrick R. Cotter Georgia: Two-Party Political Reality? by Brad Lockerbie and John A. Clark Louisiana: Two-Party Conservatism by Charles D. Hadley and Jennifer E. Horan Mississippi: The "True Believers" Challenge the Party of Everyone by Stephen D. Shaffer and David A. Breaux South Carolina: Toward a Two-Party System by Robert P. Steed, Laurence W. Moreland, and Tod A. Baker Conclusion: Party Activists in the South by Harold W. Stanley Appendix Bibliography Index

CHARLES D. HADLEY is Research Professor of Political Science at the University of New Orleans. He is coeditor (with T. Baker, L. Moreland, and R. Steed) of Political Parties in the Southern States: Party Activists in Partisan Coalitions (Praeger, 1990).LEWIS BOWMAN is retired from the faculty of the department of Political Science at the University of South Florida.

• Preface The Rim South Arkansas: Emerging Party Organizations by Diane D. Blair Florida: From Freeboating to Real Parties by William E. Hulbary, Anne E. Kelley, and Lewis Bowman North Carolina: Emerging Two-Party Politics by Charles Prysby Tennessee: Democratic Party Resilience by David M. Brodsky and Simeon J. Brodsky Texas: Yaller Dogs and Yuppies by Frank B. Feigert and Nancy L. McWilliams Virginia: Experience with Democracy by John J. McGlennon The Deep South Alabama: Activists in a Competitive Age by Patrick R. Cotter Georgia: Two-Party Political Reality? by Brad Lockerbie and John A. Clark Louisiana: Two-Party Conservatism by Charles D. Hadley and Jennifer E. Horan Mississippi: The "True Believers" Challenge the Party of Everyone by Stephen D. Shaffer and David A. Breaux South Carolina: Toward a Two-Party System by Robert P. Steed, Laurence W. Moreland, and Tod A. Baker Conclusion: Party Activists in the South by Harold W. Stanley Appendix Bibliography Index