Books by Hanes Walton

?Well expressed.... Walton's evidence to support [his] view is well put together.... None of the many other books on King approach his thought in such an analytical manner. Walton's contribution should serve many useful purposes in various social science studies.?-Choice

The work fully documents the electoral support that Carter received in his twelve elections in the state of Georgia and the support he garnered for his former vice president in the 1984 presidential election. This is the first longitudinal study to examine the impact of native son candidates on voting behavior.

This pioneering volume advances the thesis that there exists a significant linkage between Black politics and Black political behavior, heretofore treated as separate and distinct areas of study.

How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective in drawing people to vote? These are just two of the questions that The African American Electorate answers by bringing together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present.