This bloc of voters, the so-called "Solid South," was key to the fortunes of the Democratic Party. JFK campaigning at a rally in Georgia.Credit: Getty Images "The base of the Democratic party was ...

Hubris and folly finally caught up with the old man. Just months after mocking the International Criminal Court (ICC) and days after displaying characteristic bravado before a legion of cheering ...

Behind the amendment’s idealism lay the stark reality that a “solid South” of white voters would vote en masse for the Democratic Party, forcing Republicans to create a countervailing ...

Clarence Walker:The tide, in terms of white society, was running in the direction of what we would later call the "solid South." Even if you were not political, and even if you were not officially ...

Unhappy Claude Pepper bustled down from Washington, raced to the speaker’s rostrum, did his best to keep the South solid. For a full hour he pleaded and argued. “The Republican Party has ...