In recent decades there has been extensive examination of the resurgence of the Republican Party in the American South in the period after World War II. There were many events that occurred during this time that might have helped the Republican Party have increased success at getting its candidates elected in the South. One of the relationships that needed to be explored was the relationship between the decline of agriculture as the primary provider of jobs and economic prosperity and the increased ability of the Republican Party to get people elected. The purpose of this project is to determine whether there is a joint relationship between the decline in southern agriculture and an increase in per capita income, which led to an increase in
