CONTENTS Introduction: Republicans in Search of a New Majority - Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan The Rise of Conservative Republicanism: A History of Fits and Starts - Donald T. Critchlow Race, Region, and the Shadow of the New Deal - Timothy N. Thurber "The Republican Party Is Truly the Party of the 'Open Door'": Ethnic Americans and the Republican Party in the 1970s - Joe Merton Building the Republican Party and the Problem of Diversity, 1968-1975 - Catherine E. Rymph Republican Populism in the Quest for a New Majority: Pat Buchanan in the White House - Tim Stanley John Tower, Texas, and the Rise of the Republican South - Sean P. Cunningham Uneasy Alliance: The Religious Right and the Republican Party - Robert Freedman Building Consensus: The Republican Right and Foreign Policy, 1960-1980 - Sandra Scanlon Foreign Policy and the Republican Quest for a New Majority - Robert Mason Taxation as a Republican Issue in the Era of Stagflation - Iwan Morgan Rendezvous with Destiny: The Republican Party and the 1980 Election - Dominic Sandbrook Epilogue: The Ongoing Republican Search for a New Majority since 1980 - Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan.