{"id":15436,"date":"2021-04-28T20:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=15436"},"modified":"2021-04-29T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T01:38:09","slug":"is-there-any-evidence-of-the-southern-switch-that-had-people-from-the-democratic-party-flock-to-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/04\/28\/is-there-any-evidence-of-the-southern-switch-that-had-people-from-the-democratic-party-flock-to-the-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there any evidence of the southern switch that had people from the Democratic party flock to the Republican party?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Short answer, yes. According to Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015-2016 (table 1-4) here&#8217;s how many Republican candidates were elected to various offices in the South, comparing the period 1932-1965 to 1966-2014. President 15.8% to 76.5%. Governor: 0 vs. 57.6%. US Rep: 7.2% vs. 45.1%. US Senator: 1.5% vs. 65%. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-cq.\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-cq.<\/a> You could also look at some broader studies on party affiliation like these: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-shift\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-shift<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer, yes. According to Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015-2016 (table 1-4) here&#8217;s how many Republican candidates were elected to various offices in the South, comparing the period 1932-1965 to 1966-2014. President 15.8% to 76.5%. Governor: 0 vs. 57.6%. US Rep: 7.2% vs. 45.1%. US Senator: 1.5% vs. 65%. http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-cq. You could also look &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/04\/28\/is-there-any-evidence-of-the-southern-switch-that-had-people-from-the-democratic-party-flock-to-the-republican-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is there any evidence of the southern switch that had people from the Democratic party flock to the Republican party?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15438,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15436\/revisions\/15438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}