Includes bibliographical references.

Of the South -- Pt. 1. Political leadership : the one-party system in the states. Virginia : political museum piece -- Alabama : planters, populists, "big mules" -- Tennessee : the Civil War and Mr. Crump -- Florida : every man for himself -- Georgia : rule of the rustics -- South Carolina : the politics of color -- Louisiana : the seamy side of democracy -- Arkansas : pure one-party politics -- North Carolina : progressive plutocracy -- Mississippi : the delta and the hills -- Texas : a politics of economics -- A note on the Republican Party -- Nature and consequences of one-party factionalism -- Pt. 2. Political leadership : the one-party system in the nation. Hoovercrats and Dixiecrats -- Solidarity in the Senate -- The South in the House -- Pt. 3. The one-party system : mechanisms and procedures. Party organization -- The nominating process -- Ensuring finality of the primary -- Conduct of elections -- Campaign finance -- Pt. 4. Southern voters. The size of the Southern electorate -- Composition of the Southern electorate -- Pt. 5. Restrictions on voting. Southern suffrage restrictions : Bourbon coup d'etat? -- The literacy test : form and reality -- The poll tax : variations in form and application -- The poll tax : disfranchising effects -- The white primary -- Crisis over the suffrage : ferments and fears -- Is there a way out?