CLEP US History II

Answer: E - The “Solid South” was a term used to describe how the Southern states were a solid bloc of Democratic Party support for almost 100 years following the Civil War. They even continued to vote almost exclusively for Democrats after the Democratic Party became racially inclusive and progressive on social issues. (The South was notoriously regressive or stagnant on social issues). In the late 1960s, Republicans on the national stage began to notice how out-of-step Southern Democrats were with the Democratic Party as a whole, and they developed “the Southern Strategy” with which they appealed to the region’s social and religious conservatism. By the turn of the century, the region realigned, becoming a conservative Republican stronghold.