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  1. A journey in the seaboard slave states : with remarks on their economy Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site. Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law Date: 1856-01-01

  2. The Solid South was the electoral voting bloc for the Democratic Party in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During this period, the Democratic Party controlled southern state legislatures and most local, state and federal officeholders in the South were ...

  3. Definition. The Solid South refers to the political alignment of the Southern United States, where Democrats dominated for nearly a century after the Civil War.

  4. May 23, 2018 · SOLID SOUTH. The southern states of the United States became "solid" behind the Democratic Party following the Civil War. This occurred as a reaction against the Republicans, who had prosecuted the war for the North and inflicted upon the South the depredations of Reconstruction.

  5. This system -- long referred to as the Solid South -- embodied a distinctive regional culture and was perpetuated through an undemocratic distribution of power and a structure based on disfranchisement, malapportioned legislatures, and one-party politics.

  6. Aug 29, 2008 · They will discuss how American demographics — particularly votes from the Southern and the swing states, such as Ohio and Pennsylvania — will influence the campaign and the election. THE SOLID...

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  8. The disruption of the Democratic South in 1948 was repeated in the national elections that followed, and presidential Republicanism became an enduring feature of politics below the Potomac and the Ohio. New factional patterns began to emerge in the region’s state politics.

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