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Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the Southern United States. [1] Before the American Civil War, Southern Democrats were mostly whites living in the South who believed in Jacksonian democracy.
Mar 2, 2020 · When the majority of Southern white Democrats realigned with the GOP in the post-civil rights movement era, African Americans became the backbone of the modern Democratic Party in the South,...
- Angie Maxwell
May 17, 2024 · Southern Democrats is the term commonly applied to members and supporters of the United States (U.S.) Democratic Party who live in the states typically called the American South. This geographic region includes up to 16 states.
Jan 9, 2021 · With the control of the Senate on the line, Democrats in Georgia, and Black voters in particular, turned out in record numbers on Tuesday and sent Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock—only the...
- Molly Olmstead
Oct 5, 2018 · The South has been like a political Mason-Dixon Line for the Democrats, who watched the demise of the conservative "Dixiecrat" in the '80s and have stood by helplessly as the GOP uses it as...
- Senior Politics Writer
Southern Democrats were members of the Democratic Party who primarily resided in the southern United States, known for their support of states' rights and the preservation of slavery before the Civil War.
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Jun 29, 2024 · By the mid-1940s, Southern Democrats in Congress had come to occupy a pivotal position on economic issues midway between non-Southern Democrats and Republicans, giving them outsized influence over national policymaking in the wake of the New Deal.
