Capsule Review April 1950 Issue Southern Politics in State and Nation by V. O. Key, JrReviewed by Robert Gale WoolbertAbout the Author: My FA Anthologies Read more by Robert Gale Woolbert In This Review Southern Politics in State and Nation By V. O. Key, Jr Knopf, 1949 675 pp. $6.00 Purchase Facebook Twitter Email My FA Saved Articles Print A thoroughly readable yet scholarly dissection of the complex and generally antidemocratic forces operating behind the façade of politics in each of the southern states.