Part I: The Setting and Nominating Process
Chapter 1: The 2020 Southern Electorate: Demographics, Issues, and (In)Distinctiveness by Patrick R. Miller
Chapter 2: The 2020 Presidential Nomination Process by Aaron A. Hitefield and M.V. Hood III
Part II: Elections in the Deep South
Chapter 3: Alabama: Politics of Personality in the Heart of Dixie by Shannon L. Bridgmon
Chapter 4: Georgia: Breakthrough to Blue by Charles S. Bullock, III
Chapter 5: Louisiana: Trump Support in This Swamp Runs Deep by Robert E. Hogan and Anna R. Elinkowski
Chapter 6: Mississippi: Republican Hegemony Persists by Stephen D. Shaffer
Chapter 7: South Carolina: Redder than Red for Now by Branwell DuBose Kapeluck and Scott E. Buchanan
Part III: Elections in the Rim South
Chapter 8: Arkansas: Once More with Feeling for Trump by Jay Barth and Janine A. Parry
Chapter 9: Florida: Kingmaker No More? by Jonathan Knuckey and Aubrey Jewett
Chapter 10: Kentucky 2020: Bluegrass, Red State by Joel Turner, Scott Lasley, and Jeffrey P. Kash
Chapter 11: North Carolina: Even More Deeply Divided in 2020 by J. Michael Bitzer
Chapter 12: Tennessee: Trump Territory, Again by Vaughn May
Chapter 13: Texas: Texas: Partisan Changes Finally Afoot by Seth C. McKee
Chapter 14: Virginia: Trump Accelerates the Bluing of the Commonwealth by John J. McGlennon
Chapter 15: Five Southern States That Could Change American Politics by H. Gibbs Knotts