The Solid South - Voting for President

Excluding Florida, here's how the 10 former Confederate States voted in Presidential elections from 1880 to 1976:

1880-1948 - All Democratic every election except:
1920 - Tennessee for Harding.
1928 - 4 states for Hoover (Tenn, Texas, VA, NC)
1948 - 4 states for Dixiecrat Thurmond (Miss, Al, SC, LA)

1952-1964
1952- 7 states Stevenson, 3 for Ike (Va, Tenn, Texas)
1956- 6 states Stevenson, 4 for Ike (VA, Tenn, Texas LA)
1960- 7 states Kennedy, 1 Dixiecrat (Miss), 2 for Nixon (VA, Tenn)
1964- 5 states LBJ, 5 states Goldwater (SC/Miss/Al/LA/GA)

1968-1976
1968 - 1 state Humphrey (Texas), 6 states Wallace, 3 states Nixon (VA, NC, Tenn) Note Nixon got 13% of the vote in Miss and Alabama and 23%in LA - he came in 3rd in all three states.
1972 - All 10 states for Nixon
1976- Carter wins 9 of 10 states ( VA votes Ford)

Southern States voting Republican: 1880-1976

1. Tenn - 1920, 1928, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972
2. Va - 1928, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1976
3. Texas - 1928, 1952, 1956, 1972
4. NC - 1928, 1968, 1972
5. LA - 1956, 1964, 1972
6. SC - 1964, 1972
7. GA - 1964, 1972
8. AL - 1964, 1972
9. Miss - 1964, 1972
10. Ark - 1972