I. The Changing South 1. Old Politics, New People The Old “Southern” Politics The politics of the old south—that is, pre-Civil Rights movement—were overwhelmingly dominated a one-party system of the Democratic Party. As a result, the Democratic Party highly depressed rates of white political participation, relentless subordination and exclusion of African Americans from politics, and… Read More “Politics and Society in the South”; ‘The Changing South’