How the 'Solid South' Shifted from Reliably Democrat to Reliably Republican with the Southern Strategy
This history is essential to understanding a potential realignment in the 2020s
The so-called “Solid South” of White segregationists’ block voting for Democrats existed between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, which outlawed Jim Crow segregation in public accommodations.
Only Arkansas fully fits the “Solid South” archetype, voting for the Democrat for president in every election betw…
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