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Significance
The US South, defined as the eleven states of the 19th-century Confederacy, was a Democratic stronghold for 100 years after the Civil War. Now, with some of the country’s heaviest concentrations of Black Democratic supporters and White evangelical Republican voters, it encompasses the intensified schisms in contemporary politics.
Impacts
There will be seven Senate races in the South in November, two of which will not have an incumbent.
Nine Southern states will have Republican governors in 2022, with Republican-controlled legislatures in ten.
Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat who gave Republican Ted Cruz a close Senate race in 2018, is running for governor of Texas.
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