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:
“These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nations agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a familys financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United Statesas much education as he could absorb.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)