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To: justiceseeker93
The Solid South was a political concept I remember hearing about when I was young.
Solid South refers to the electoral support of the Southern United States for the Democratic Party candidates for nearly a century from 1877, the end of the Reconstruction, to 1964, during the middle of the Civil Rights era. [More at the Wiki link above]
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5 posted on 06/28/2010 3:47:47 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj; All

Yep. Speaking of the Solid South, here are the percentages of the vote for Roosevelt (essentially all white) in the 11 former Confederate states in the 1932 election vs. Hoover: South Carolina 98, Mississippi 96, Louisiana 93, Georgia 92, Texas 88, Arkansas 86, Alabama 85, Florida 75, North Carolina 70, Virginia 68, Tennessee 66. (I guess we can be thankful that those kinds of numbers are history.)


7 posted on 06/28/2010 5:29:32 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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