Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi - Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860 (Paperback, Revised)

Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi examines gender and antebellum politics, and argues that the demands of masculinity and honour within states' antiparty political culture made secession possible. The non-institutional context of all political rhetoric caused Mississippi voters to condemn the Republicans' anti-Southern program as a personal insult, and linked men's understanding of masculinity with electoral politics, the actual mechanism for secession.