Explain Why The South Was Democratic

Why the South was Democrat In the 1950s and the 1960s the federal government’s efforts to desegregate the South, because “States Rights”. (Landers 1-2). The so-called Solid South all but unanimously supported Democrats for more than half a century. States like South Carolina and Mississippi routinely offering Democrats more than 95 percent of the vote, even to losing presidential candidates. The timing of the demise of the Southern Democrat is not coincidental. It reflects a complete cycle of generational replacement in the post-Jim Crow era. Old loyalties to the Democratic Party have died along with the generation of white Southerners who came of age during the era of the Solid South, before Brown v. Board of Education, before the Civil Rights …show more content…
The black voters overwhelmingly supported Democrats. This group of voters gave Democrats dominance over the Republicans in the Solid South. (Cohn 1-7). Progressive politics may work in a Seattle or a New York City, but they’re not supposed to win campaigns south of the Mason-Dixon. Southern states voted as one Democratic bloc for almost a century after the Civil War, until the landmark civil rights measures of the 1960s combined with Richard Nixon’s election. (Cooper Jr 1-13). The Democratic Party has been stellar at spinning a revisionist history where the righteous among their ranks fought “tirelessly” to further the cause of Civil Rights, Woman’s Rights-indeed human rights-throughout time immemorial “Civil Rights Act of 1964”. (Gabbay 1). Blacks in the South predominantly voted Democrat because they favored the Democrats over the Republicans. (Landers 1-2). The blacks voted democrat because they thought that the KKK and Jim Crow laws were republican creations. The trouble is that there was a marked flux in the number of Black Americans who voted Democrat from as early as the 1913 to 1921 presidency of Woodrow Wilson, a man dubbed a “virulent racist”. (Gabbay