Books Discussed in this Essay: The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South, by Joseph A. Aistrup. The Rise of Southern Republicans, by Earl Black and Merle Black. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994, by Dan T. Carter.A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, by David L. Chappell.The Emerging Republican Majority, by Kevin Phillips. A myth about conservatism is circulating in academia and journalism and has spread to the 2004 presidential campaign. It goes something like this: the Republican Party assembled a national majority by winning over...