Political Scientist and Author

Rick Valelly

1 article 2001

Rick Valelly is a political scientist at Swarthmore College, specializing in American politics, voting rights, and the political history of the American South. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2001 with a piece examining Southern political culture.

To Live and Die in Dixie

May 14, 2001 · Magazine, Books and Arts

IN THE DIXIECRAT REVOLT AND THE END OF THE SOLID SOUTH 1932-1968, Kari Frederickson, a University of Alabama historian, offers a lively and perceptive account of the last important case when a dissident party faction played a desperate card once it had failed at the nominating convention -- bolting…