THE NEWEST SOUTHERN POLITICS

The South's delegation to the House of Representatives has shifted fro m an old southern politics of one-party domination to a new southern p olitics based on increased two-party competition to the newest souther n politics of the 1990s. Examination of the newest southern politics r eveals a racial landscape based on black contributions and white share s in which there are three distinct paths to victory: the rule of whit e majorities for white Republicans, the rule of black majorities for b lack Democrats, and the rule of biracial coalitions for white Democrat s. Each group of winners votes in distinctive patterns. Developments w ithin the South have revitalized the national two-party battle for con trol of the House of Representatives.