South in Presidential Elections
| Presidential electoral votes in southern states since 1876 | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Alabama | Arkansas | Florida | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Mississippi | North Carolina | Oklahoma | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876 | Tilden | Tilden | Hayes | Tilden | Tilden | Hayes | Tilden | Tilden | No election | Hayes | Tilden | Tilden | Tilden | Tilden |
| 1880 | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock | No election | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock | Hancock |
| 1884 | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | No election | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland |
| 1888 | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | No election | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland |
| 1892 | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | No election | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland |
| 1896 | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | McKinley | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | No election | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | McKinley |
| 1900 | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | No election | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | McKinley |
| 1904 | Parker | Parker | Parker | Parker | Parker | Parker | Parker | Parker | No election | Parker | Parker | Parker | Parker | Roosevelt |
| 1908 | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Bryan | Taft |
| 1912 | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson |
| 1916 | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Hughes |
| 1920 | Cox | Cox | Cox | Cox | Cox | Cox | Cox | Cox | Harding | Cox | Harding | Cox | Cox | Harding |
| 1924 | Davis | Davis | Davis | Davis | Coolidge | Davis | Davis | Davis | Davis | Davis | Davis | Davis | Davis | Coolidge |
| 1928 | Smith | Smith | Hoover | Smith | Hoover | Smith | Smith | Hoover | Hoover | Smith | Hoover | Hoover | Hoover | Hoover |
| 1932 | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt |
| 1936 | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt |
| 1940 | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt |
| 1944 | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt | Roosevelt |
| 1948 | Thurmond | Truman | Truman | Truman | Truman | Thurmond | Thurmond | Truman | Truman | Thurmond | Truman | Truman | Truman | Truman |
| 1952 | Stevenson | Stevenson | Eisenhower | Stevenson | Stevenson | Stevenson | Stevenson | Stevenson | Eisenhower | Stevenson | Eisenhower | Eisenhower | Eisenhower | Stevenson |
| 1956 | Stevenson | Stevenson | Eisenhower | Stevenson | Eisenhower | Eisenhower | Stevenson | Stevenson | Eisenhower | Stevenson | Eisenhower | Eisenhower | Eisenhower | Eisenhower |
| 1960 | Byrd | Kennedy | Nixon | Kennedy | Nixon | Kennedy | Byrd | Kennedy | Nixon | Kennedy | Nixon | Kennedy | Nixon | Kennedy |
| 1964 | Goldwater | Johnson | Johnson | Goldwater | Johnson | Goldwater | Goldwater | Johnson | Johnson | Goldwater | Johnson | Johnson | Johnson | Johnson |
| 1968 | Wallace | Wallace | Nixon | Wallace | Nixon | Wallace | Wallace | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Humphrey | Nixon | Humphrey |
| 1972 | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon | Nixon |
| 1976 | Carter | Carter | Carter | Carter | Carter | Carter | Carter | Carter | Ford | Carter | Carter | Carter | Ford | Carter |
| 1980 | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Carter | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Carter |
| 1984 | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan | Reagan |
| 1988 | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Dukakis |
| 1992 | Bush | Clinton | Bush | Clinton | Clinton | Clinton | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Clinton | Bush | Bush | Clinton |
| 1996 | Dole | Clinton | Clinton | Dole | Clinton | Clinton | Dole | Dole | Dole | Dole | Clinton | Dole | Dole | Clinton |
| 2000 | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush |
| 2004 | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush | Bush |
| 2008 | McCain | McCain | Obama | McCain | McCain | McCain | McCain | Obama | McCain | McCain | McCain | McCain | Obama | McCain |
| 2012 | Romney | Romney | Obama | Romney | Romney | Romney | Romney | Romney | Romney | Romney | Romney | Romney | Obama | Romney |
| Year | Alabama | Arkansas | Florida | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Mississippi | North Carolina | Oklahoma | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia | West Virginia |
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Famous quotes containing the words south, presidential and/or elections:
“The white gulls south of Victoria
catch tossed crumbs in midair.
When anyone hears the Catbird
he gets lonesome.”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal requestit is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)