The Journal of Politics

Table of Contents - May 1973 - Volume 35, Issue 02  

Research Notes

Are Southern Party Leaders Really Different?

Charles W. Wiggins

In his seminal work on politics in the southern region of the United States, V. O. Key, Jr., argues that party organizations are distinctly different from those in other regions of the country1 In essence, he attributes much less importance, or influence, to official party organizations in the South than to those in other more electorally competitive regions: