Excerpt from Politics in the Border States: A Study of the Patterns of Political Organization, and Political Change, Common to the Border States; Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri This Book is concerned with four of the Border States: Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Maryland. These four were selected because they are contiguous and are typical of the Border State region. In terms of political behavior, the Border States are interesting for their own sakes, resting as they do between North and South and thus providing something of a battleground where the two cultures vie for supremacy. However, the political patterns of the Border States are assuming a more universal significance as the South becomes more industrialized and thus takes on some of the cultural contradictions that heretofore were only to be found in the Border States. Consequently, the Border States have become an important indicator of what the future may hold in store for the South. A central purpose of this study has been to find patterns of political organization and political change that are common to the Border States and that, consequently, might have a certain universality, at least within the political environment of the United States. In some ways the Border State environment is unique. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.