Southern Company

...person's best interest is best served by the Democratic Party." Sack, Kevin, "A Southern Democrat Resists The Lure of Party Switching" The New York Times, Jan. 20, 1996 Still, Taylor's independent streak continued. In 1998, he was one of...

In this article: Hurricane Katrina, The Sun Herald, Nancy Pelosi, Mississippi, State Farm, Gene Taylor, John P. Murtha, and Charles Rangel

...more than a little truth to this at one time. The GOP, after all, became a safe haven for Southern bigots who fled the Democratic Party (as Lyndon Johnson knew they would) in the civil rights era. The fight for the rights of blacks turned...

In this article: George W. Bush, GOP, Karl Rove, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Democratic Party, Al Sharpton, Southern, Bill Clinton, and Kanye West

...Louisiana to Virginia, the heart of the Old Confederacy. Sen. Barack Obama's ability to excite African-American voters in certain Southern races could provide an additional boost, too. The party's rising prospects point toward a once...

In this article: Bobby Bright, Republican Party, Southern, Alabama, Democratic Party, and Artur Davis

...in the Deep South did manage to send white Democratic representatives to Washington. It is of course true that Southern white Democrats have moved towards the Republican Party in droves since the 1960s, when the Democratic Party embraced...

In this article: Barack Obama, John Kerry, Alabama, John McCain, Republican Party, Eric Holder, Southern, Appalachia, and California

...margin. And while Barack Obama did actually win three states in the South, his triumph should do away with the notion that a "Southern strategy" is essential to the Democratic Party's long-term viability at the presidential level. First,...

In this article: Barack Obama, G.O.P., Democratic Party, Lyndon Johnson, John McCain, Al Gore, North Carolina, Virginia, and Southern

...votes? The only exception I could find would be Joseph Lane of Oregon in 1860, who was the VP candidate with John Breckinridge for the Southern half of the Democratic Party, and when Oregon only had three electoral votes. - Dewie Gaul,...

In this article: John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Red Sox, GOP, Dick Cheney, and James Madison

...in the South are met with revulsion in the North, and vice versa. Just as it took some time for Southern voters to realize the extent and depth of the national Democratic Party's abandonment of them, it's taken a while for the Northeast to...

In this article: Republican Party, Southern, John McCain, Democratic Party, Strom Thurmond, Bill Clinton, Christopher Shays, Barack Obama, and Lyndon Johnson

...1950s. And Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton both dramatically increased their party's performance in rural and Southern areas four years after those areas turned sharply against Northern nominees (George McGovern and Michael Dukakis).

In this article: George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, E-mail, Colorado, Southern, White House, GOP, Tennessee, and Jimmy Carter

...at an appearance before the NAACP. "There's been an adaptation to the Voting Rights Act; it's now baked in the cake," said Emory University political scientist Merle Black, an expert on Southern politics. "It's hugely important for the...

In this article: Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court, Sonny Perdue, Southern, Barack Obama, Austin, and Texas