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'''This article is a candidate for immediate deletion.''' <br>
The article is not of encyclopedic quality. It is '''uninformative''' and '''superfluous'''. Please vote at [[AFD The South]].
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'''The South''' is usually identified as the eleven states that made up the [[Confederate States of America]] which consisted of [[South Carolina]], [[Mississippi]], [[Florida]], [[Alabama]], [[Georgia]], [[Louisiana]], [[Texas]], [[Virginia]], [[Arkansas]], [[Tennessee]] and [[North Carolina]].{{fact}} The South is currently defined by the US Census as the above listed states, as well as [[Delaware]], [[Maryland]], [[West Virginia]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Oklahoma]]. [http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf]
Although the south once fought to secede from the union during the [[Civil War]], today they are known as much as all the other states of the Union for their patriotism and commitment to morality in government.
==Presidential politics==
After the ratification of the [[United States Constitution|U. S. Constitution]], the two most important schools of interpretation of that Constitution came to be associated with [[Alexander Hamilton]], a Northerner, and [[Thomas Jefferson]], a Southerner. Each came to dominate the thinking of his respective region, if only following his death. The two men were also associated with competing sectors of the economy -- finance for Hamilton and agriculture for Jefferson -- and their supporters were therefore identified with Americans who had widely divergent outlooks on and goals in life. This was one major reason the South has always looked at politics differently than any other major region.
[[Andrew Jackson]] was the first national politician to attempt to fuze the two schools. His experiment, a party in which Northern laborers and Southern yeomen would have an equal stake, lasted throughout the [[Second Party System]], but was unable to hold out in 1860 against the challenge of the [[Republicans]] led by [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Later Democratic Presidents, taking their cue from Lincoln, were far more inspired by Hamilton, seeking almost without exception to expand the role of the [[Federal government]]; but the legacy of Jackson and the [[Civil War]] would keep the South on their side up until 1968.
From the end of the Civil War to the 1960 election, the "Solid South" as political pundits called it, nearly always supported Democratic candidates. Since 1964, the South has become increasingly important to Presidential victors.
===1964 to present===
The Solid South began to break down in the 1964 election, when five southern states voted for Republican [[Barry Goldwater]]. The largest and President Johnson's homestate, Texas, remained Democratic. In 1968, [[Richard Nixon]] carried Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas, while an Independent [[George Wallace]] carried the rest. Former Democratic Gov. George Wallace commenting on his 1968 Presidential bid declared, by using a base of electoral votes in the Solid South <ref>[http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/1968ec.gif 1968 Electoral Distribution]</ref> and adding a few Northern and Midwestern industrial belt states could accumulate enough electoral votes to win. The strategy was repeated effectively 8 years later by Democratic contender [[Jimmy Carter]].<ref>[http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/1976ec.gif 1976 Electoral Distribution].</ref> Since the 1972 election, candidates Richard Nixon (1972), Jimmy Carter (1976), [[Ronald Reagan]] (1984), [[George H.W. Bush]] (1988), and [[George W. Bush]] (2000 and 2004) carried every Southern state. The exception was in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter carried his home state of Georgia. [[Bill Clinton]] carried Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia in 1992, but lost Georgia in 1996.<ref>http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/></ref>
Large numbers of Southerners have served in the U.S. military. During the Civil War southerners did not volunteer in large enough numbers to match the military needs of the south. Approximately twenty percent of all Confederate soldiers were therefore draftees (compared to eight percent in the Union armies), and they were subject to “compulsory reenlistment.”<ref>Tinadall & Shi, ''America: A Narrative History'', 7th ed.(New York Norton, 2007):616-618.</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Geography]]
[[Category:Politics]]
'''This article is a candidate for immediate deletion.''' <br>
The article is not of encyclopedic quality. It is '''uninformative''' and '''superfluous'''. Please vote at [[AFD The South]].
</div>
'''The South''' is usually identified as the eleven states that made up the [[Confederate States of America]] which consisted of [[South Carolina]], [[Mississippi]], [[Florida]], [[Alabama]], [[Georgia]], [[Louisiana]], [[Texas]], [[Virginia]], [[Arkansas]], [[Tennessee]] and [[North Carolina]].{{fact}} The South is currently defined by the US Census as the above listed states, as well as [[Delaware]], [[Maryland]], [[West Virginia]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Oklahoma]]. [http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf]
Although the south once fought to secede from the union during the [[Civil War]], today they are known as much as all the other states of the Union for their patriotism and commitment to morality in government.
==Presidential politics==
After the ratification of the [[United States Constitution|U. S. Constitution]], the two most important schools of interpretation of that Constitution came to be associated with [[Alexander Hamilton]], a Northerner, and [[Thomas Jefferson]], a Southerner. Each came to dominate the thinking of his respective region, if only following his death. The two men were also associated with competing sectors of the economy -- finance for Hamilton and agriculture for Jefferson -- and their supporters were therefore identified with Americans who had widely divergent outlooks on and goals in life. This was one major reason the South has always looked at politics differently than any other major region.
[[Andrew Jackson]] was the first national politician to attempt to fuze the two schools. His experiment, a party in which Northern laborers and Southern yeomen would have an equal stake, lasted throughout the [[Second Party System]], but was unable to hold out in 1860 against the challenge of the [[Republicans]] led by [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Later Democratic Presidents, taking their cue from Lincoln, were far more inspired by Hamilton, seeking almost without exception to expand the role of the [[Federal government]]; but the legacy of Jackson and the [[Civil War]] would keep the South on their side up until 1968.
From the end of the Civil War to the 1960 election, the "Solid South" as political pundits called it, nearly always supported Democratic candidates. Since 1964, the South has become increasingly important to Presidential victors.
===1964 to present===
The Solid South began to break down in the 1964 election, when five southern states voted for Republican [[Barry Goldwater]]. The largest and President Johnson's homestate, Texas, remained Democratic. In 1968, [[Richard Nixon]] carried Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas, while an Independent [[George Wallace]] carried the rest. Former Democratic Gov. George Wallace commenting on his 1968 Presidential bid declared, by using a base of electoral votes in the Solid South <ref>[http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/1968ec.gif 1968 Electoral Distribution]</ref> and adding a few Northern and Midwestern industrial belt states could accumulate enough electoral votes to win. The strategy was repeated effectively 8 years later by Democratic contender [[Jimmy Carter]].<ref>[http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/1976ec.gif 1976 Electoral Distribution].</ref> Since the 1972 election, candidates Richard Nixon (1972), Jimmy Carter (1976), [[Ronald Reagan]] (1984), [[George H.W. Bush]] (1988), and [[George W. Bush]] (2000 and 2004) carried every Southern state. The exception was in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter carried his home state of Georgia. [[Bill Clinton]] carried Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia in 1992, but lost Georgia in 1996.<ref>http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/></ref>
Large numbers of Southerners have served in the U.S. military. During the Civil War southerners did not volunteer in large enough numbers to match the military needs of the south. Approximately twenty percent of all Confederate soldiers were therefore draftees (compared to eight percent in the Union armies), and they were subject to “compulsory reenlistment.”<ref>Tinadall & Shi, ''America: A Narrative History'', 7th ed.(New York Norton, 2007):616-618.</ref>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Geography]]
[[Category:Politics]]