Since the passage of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 only three Democrats have captured the White House--all of them natives of southern states. The ascendancy and reelection of Bill Clinton to the presidency is a prime example of this phenomenon and although books have been published on the native son psychological variable in electoral contests no work to date has investigated this aspect of Clinton s political career. Covering all of Clinton s twenty-one elections to state and national offices Hanes Walton Jr. explores one of the political success stories of our century showing how Clinton s popularity in his southern home has had a profound influence on his national electoral dominance. Walton combines the native-son theory with the issue of race to describe how the Democrats have built a vital power base in the South in large measure because of their popularity among African-American voters. With an epilogue on the Monica Lewinsky scandal and its effect on the Democratic Party Reelection is a major contribution to the literature on the psychology of national elections at a time when its insight into the possibility of Democratic leadership into the next century is most critical.