The New Dominion: The Twentieth-Century Elections That Shaped Modern Virginia

The New Dominion analyzes six key statewide elections to explore the demographic, cultural, and economic changes that drove the transformation of the state’s politics and shaped the political Virginia of today. Countering the common narrative that the shifting politics of Virginia is a recent phenomenon driven by population growth in the urban corridor, the contributors to this volume consider the antecedents to the rise of Virginia as a two-party competitive state in the critical elections of the twentieth century that they profile.

© 2023 University of Virginia Press (Ebook): 9780813949727

Release date

Ebook: 4 August 2023