books.google.com - In "The Southern Political Tradition", the distinguished southern historian, Michael Perman, explores the region's distinctive political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the South's perception of itself as a minority under attack from the 1820s to the 1960s. Drawing on his extensive...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Southern_Political_Tradition.html?id=9vKdQKDZjjcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Southern Political Tradition