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The Republican Party's Southern Strategy, which involved appealing to white Southern voters through states' rights and cultural messaging.
began in the mid-1850s as a northern coalition formed to stop the expansion of slavery into western territories after Congress passed the , which reopened the slavery question in the territories . Ant...
— commonly the GOP — was founded in the 1850s as an anti‑slavery coalition and rose to national power with ’s 1860 victory, then evolved through phases of , pro‑business alignment, mid‑20th century mo...
The Republican Party began the post–Civil War era as the party most closely associated with Black voting rights and Reconstruction-era enforcement of the 13th–15th Amendments, but over the ensuing cen...
Racial politics were central to the 20th‑century partisan shift in the South: a mix of grassroots racial backlash, elite maneuvering (the so‑called Southern Strategy), and institutional changes within...
unfolded across decades, not overnight: northern Black voters began moving toward the during the New Deal and , mid‑century Democratic commitments to national civil‑rights laws crystallized the change...
A small minority of Southern Democrats broke with their regional bloc to vote for the , but the bulk of opposition came from and drove the need for cross-party coalitions to overcome a lengthy Senate ...