memphis
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« on: September 07, 2012, 07:48:36 PM » |
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« edited: September 07, 2012, 07:50:33 PM by memphis »
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This is the Black Belt. It's the lowland areas that had most of the slaves before the Civil War.
Whites here have gone from pretty much unanimous Dem to uniaminous GOP. The white population in most other areas in the South (East Tennessee is an exception) were strongly Dem but much further from unanimously so. Similarly, non-Black Belt Southern whites today are strongly GOP but much less so than in the Black Belt. As others have pointed out, East Tennessee hasn't budged a bit in well over 100 years. Not many other places can the same although New York City comes to mind.
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