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Oct 25, 2018 · “Racially conservative” attitudes were the primary reason white Southerners abandoned the Democratic Party after party leaders began to advocate for civil rights legislation during the last half of the 20 th century, finds a new study from researchers at Princeton and Yale universities.
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Feb 5, 2016 · The majority of whites have voted Republican in every election over the past 50 years, but a meaningful minority of whites support the Democratic nominee every election. The latter fact...
en.wikipedia.org · wiki · Politics_of_the_SouthernPolitics of the Southern United States - Wikipedia
Exit polls in the 2004 presidential election showed that Republican George W. Bush led Democrat John Kerry by 70–30% among Southern whites, who comprised 71% of the voters there. By contrast, Kerry had a 90–9 lead among the 18% of African American Southern voters.
www.nytimes.com · 2016/08/23 · upshot50 Years of Electoral College Maps: How the U.S. Turned Red ...
Aug 22, 2016 · The beginnings of the blue-red regional alignment in today’s American politics can be traced to 1964, when Republicans broke through in the South after almost 100 years of Democratic...
- Toni Monkovic
Aug 18, 2017 · After that, the majority of the South still continued to vote Democratic because it thought of the Republican party as the party of Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction. The big...
- Becky Little
Nov 5, 2020 · The majority of white voters have voted for Republicans in presidential elections going back to the 1960s. Lyndon Johnson was actually the last Democrat to win the white vote.
Jan 17, 2018 · Whereas postbellum Democrats campaigned on racist platforms, most Republicans were committed to using government to secure black rights. All of the new constitutions guaranteed black...
