Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln

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205 Index Abortion, 4, 69, 167 Absentee ballots, 126 Af‹rmative action, 59, 150, 155 African-American newspapers. See Black media Aistrup, Joseph A., 38n, 44 Alabama, 42, 45, 46, 64, 119n. 12 Alaska, 151 Aldrich, John H., 31, 34, 35 American National Election Study, 6, 8, 29, 62, 63, 126, 130, 163, 171, 172, 183, 184 ANES. See American National Election Study Ansolabehere, Stephen, 16n Arab Americans, 76 Arkansas, 63, 119n. 12 Arts, 57, 58, 68, 69, 72 Asian Americans, 76, 80, 138, 182n Atwater, Lee, 48, 49 Australian ballot, 40 Baltimore Afro-American, 93, 95, 175 Bargain of Atlanta, 45 Barnes, Clifford, 48 Beck, Paul, 84 Black church, 49, 51, 52, 127, 146, 148, 180 Black media, 86, 87, 88, 90, 94, 95, 100, 101, 161, 175 Black Republicans, 72–74, 78–79, 93, 95, 127 Brazile, Donna, 80 Brock, Bill, 48 Brown, Ron, 144 Bryan, William Jennings, 42 Buchanan, Pat, 55, 100, 124, 128, 160 Bull Moose Progressive Movement, 34 Bunche, Ralph, 42 Burnham, Walter Dean, 38 Bush, George H. W., 47, 48, 49, 53, 57, 58, 65, 127, 144, 147, 152 Bush, George P., 99, 165 Bush, George W.: and blacks, 32, 125, 128; cabinet, 126, 127, 138; campaign strategy in 2000, 54; and Congressional Black Caucus, 125; fairness of election in 2000, 8, 124, 127, 128, 134; feeling thermometer , 118–19, 133–34, 163; inauguration , 123; and Latinos, 125, 128, 164, 165; and NAACP, 1–2; popular vote, 124; probability of voting for, 116–17, 120; and racial harmony , 3; record, 138; and Republican National Convention in 2000, 86, 93, 96, 99, 100; and Republican National Convention in 2004, 136; Republican political symbol, 12; sin- Bush, George W. (continued) cerity, 70, 71; and Southern whites, 119–21; television advertising, 52, 138, 165; and women, 167 Bush, Jeb, 127 Business, 38, 57, 58, 68, 69, 74, 75, 76, 77, 93 Busing, 45 Butter›y ballots, 124 California, 45, 47, 56, 157, 164 California Civil Rights Initiative, 56 Campaign ‹nance, 75 Campaigns: conventions as, 28; de‹nition, 17; and framing, 18, 21, 22, 84–85, 170; interpretation of, 26; and predispositions, 20, 112–15; and priming, 26–27; racialized , 3, 3n, 37, 53, 159–60, 170; and symbolic communication, 50, 159 Campbell, Angus, 16 Capital punishment. See Death penalty Carmines, Edward, 22 Carter, Jimmy, 46, 47, 49, 51, 64, 65 CBS News Monthly Poll #1, 29n Chads, 124, 124n Chaney, James, 46, 46n Cheney, Dick, 96, 138 Civil rights, 3, 43, 44, 46, 51, 57, 63, 64, 95, 149 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 44, 93 Civil Rights Act of 1990, 65 Civil Rights Movement, 38, 39, 78, 82, 160 Cleveland, Grover, 50 Clinton, Hillary, 127 Clinton, William Jefferson, 49, 51, 51n, 52, 56, 65, 144–47, 152, 165 Cobb, Roger, 12, 50 Colorado, 34, 173 Compassionate conservative, 1, 3, 8, 128, 167 Competing information. See Countervailing information Compromise of 1877, 40 Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), 125 Conservative: and Democratic, 147, 152, 154, 155, 156–57; issue positions , 15, 47, 49, 53, 55, 69, 103; leadership, 45, 47, 51, 54, 55, 95; racially, 8, 13, 24, 32, 37, 45, 52, 53, 61, 62, 65–66, 68, 83, 143–44, 158, 159, 160, 162; and Republican , 75, 76, 77 Countervailing information, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 21, 84, 100, 159, 170 Crigler, Ann, 19, 85 Crime, 48, 49, 52, 56, 60, 76, 146, 147 Crisis, 125 Dalton, Russell, 84 Dawson, Michael, 37n. 3 Death penalty, 12, 55, 56, 60, 69, 150 Defense, 4, 60 DeLay, Tom, 128 Democratic Party: and blacks, 29, 32, 40, 41, 42–44, 45, 48, 51, 112, 145, 162; coalition, 43, 48, 53; Democratic National Committee, 35, 70; Democratic National Conventions , 51, 86, 144, 145, 152; Dixiecrat Revolt, 2, 44; and election of 2000, 126; and Latinos, 164, 166; leadership, 34, 42, 43, 44, 49, 51, 69, 78–79, 80, 144; minority outreach, 138; party image, 8, 12, 15, 68–69, 74–77, 132, 144–45, 163; platform, 143, 146–52; and race, 7, 29, 38, 53, 146–47; racial symbolism, 23, 24, 29, 62–67, 69, 76, 77–78, 82–83, 129, 130, 144, 152–54, 156–57, 160, 162; Southern Democrats, 3, 40, 41, 44, 46, 144, 154–56, 162; and Trent Lott, 3; and two-party system, 33, 34, 38; voters, 2; and women, 167 Denton, Robert, 2 Detroit, MI, 77, 78 206 Index Discrimination, 43, 56, 57...