The Solid South was the electoral voting bloc for the Democratic Party in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877...

the weakening of the "Solid South". (This referred to the Southern Democratic Party's control of presidential elections in the South and most seats in Congress...

districts in Southern Appalachia, on the fringe of the Deep South, during the "Solid South" period. At the turn of the 20th century, all Southern states...

the South during the Solid South period with the party only holding two seats in Tennessee between 1947 and 1952, out of the 105 seats in the south. Republicans...

and conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Solid South describes the reliable electoral support of the U.S. Southern states...

landslide and made substantial inroads in the traditionally-Democratic Solid South by winning several states that had not voted for a Republican since the...

Southerners at the time, who predominantly backed the Democratic Party in the Solid South, and from Irish and German Catholics, who made up a major Democratic...

pass a federal law." None succeeded in gaining passage, blocked by the Solid South—the delegation of powerful white Southerners in the Senate, which controlled...

of the 36 Congresses elected owing largely to their dominance of the Solid South, although only in five of these did they form the majority in the Senate...

of the Republican Party in nearly all parts of the South, the region became known as the "Solid South", and the Democratic Party after 1900 moved to a system...