About the Contributors & Editors

About the Contributors <& Editors Whit Ayres and Jon McHenry are gop pollsters with Q.W. Ayres & Associates, Inc., in Adanta, Georgia. Ayres graduated cum laude from Davidson College in Davidson , North Carolina, with a major in political science. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. McHenry graduated cum laude from the University of New Hampshire with a major in political science. He received an M.A. in political science from the University of Georgia, with a specialization in American politics. Thad Beyle is Thomas C. Pearsall Professor ofpolitical science at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has edited several books on governors and state governments, including twelve volumes of State Government: CQ's Guide to Current Issues andActivities. He is a former board chairman of the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research and the N.C. Institute of Political Leadership. Qavln James Campbell is a doctoral student in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation topic is Atlanta's musical life in the early twentieth century. Natalie Davis is a professor ofpolitical science at Birmingham-Southern College. She has conducted opinion surveys in Alabama for twenty-five years. In 1996, she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate. Based in Washington, D.C., Roland L. Freeman is a freelance photographer whose work has been published widely and exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa. Since 1972 he has served as a fieldresearch photographer in folklore for the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies. Freeman received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi , where in spring 1 997 he was the Eudora Welty Visiting Professor ofSouthern Studies. Cole Blease Graham Jr. is dean of the College ofCriminalJustice at the University of South Carolina. He is coauthor, with William V. Moore, of South Carolina Politics and Government. Ferrel Quillory is director of the Program in Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is also a lecturer in the School ofJournalism and Mass Communication. A columnist for The News and Observerin Raleigh for twenty-four years, Guillory coauthored The State ofthe South report, issued by mdc Inc., a nonprofit research firm, in 1996. James L. LelOUdis is associate professor of history at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Leloudis is coauthor ofUke a Family: The Making ofa Southern Cotton Mill World and author of Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, andSociety in North Carolina, 1880—1920. He is coeditor for reviews for Southern Cultures. Mac McCorkle is the president of McCorkle Policy Consulting, Inc., in Durham, North Carolina. He serves as an issues consultant for a number of Democratic candidates and officeholders in the South. Jerry Loath Mills served from 196; until his retirement in 1 997 on the faculty at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was professor of English, editor of Studies in Philology, and an associate editor of The Southern UteraryJournal. He is currendy visiting professor ofEnglish at East Carolina University and coeditor for reviews for Southern Cultures. ?? Sue Tolleson-Rinehart is a political scientist who has published two books and numerous articles over the years on women and politics and the political psychology of gender roles. Her most recent book, Claytie and the Lady: Ann Richards, Gender and Politics in Texas, won the 1995 Liz Carpenter Award from the Texas State Historical Association. She has been Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. Currently, she serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research where, among other things, she hopes to continue exploring women's issues with research in public policy's influence on women's health care outcomes. John Shelton Reed is William Rand KenanJr. Professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among his recent books is 1001 Things Everyone ShouldKnowAbout the South, written with Dale Volberg Reed. He is coeditor of Southern Cultures. Harry L Watson is professor ofhistory at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent publication is Uberty and Power: The Politics ofjacksonianAmerica. He is also coeditor oí Southern Cultures. 1 5 2 About the Contributors <¿rEditors ...