Voters in many areas of the U.S. are aloud to vote differently as a

whole from election to election. The nation has also had a

decreased turnout rate for the presidential and local elections. The

South has typically not followed these patterns that the rest of has

seemed to be following. The Southern whites of the United States

have typically followed and voted for the more conservative

candidate and party. Where as the Southern blacks have typically

(when they have been able to vote) voted for the more liberal party

The South was at one time a Democratic stronghold and has in the

past 30 years become a typically conservative voting electorate.

This tendency of voting by race for the liberal or conservative

candidate has been a continuing occurrence. Southern turn out for

elections has been significantly lower than the rest of the nation as

well over the same time period. This bias of the past 30 years as

well as voter turn out has only recently began to change in the

In the beginning of and prior to the 1960's the South was a

Democratic stronghold and it was rare for

black votes. In 1980 it seems that the Southern whites once again

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