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Many decades ago, the democrats received the votes of the solid south. This was at a time when the republicans were considered more liberal than democrats.

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Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, so the Democrat party had a very strong hold on Southern politics for approximately 100 years afterward. This began to change only in the 1970's and 1980's.

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