Archive Report
Archive Report
New Interest in Elections in the South
Battle lines are forming for 1966 state and congressional elections that will shed additional light on the South's changing political climate. The Solid South—that is, the solidly Democratic South—no longer exists. Since 1928, every one of the 11 states of the old Confederacy except Arkansas has voted Republican in a presidential election at least once.1
Pressures from within and without have sharply altered the South's social and political structure in the past 15 years. The region is now more urban than rural, and re-apportionment of legislative and congressional districts has given the cities power they formerly lacked. Spurred by a series of federal civil rights laws, Negro voting has been rising steadily despite bitter white opposition in many areas. ...