John Kenneth White is a Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America and is the author of several books on American political parties and the presidency including The Fractured Electorate: Political Parties and Social Change in Southern New England (Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1983); The New Politics of Old Values (Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1988 and 1990); Still Seeing Red: How the Cold War Shapes the New American Politics (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997 and 1998); The Values Divide: American Politics and Culture in Transition (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2003); and Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era.