Table 1

Party Identification of South States in Recent Years

YEAR RIM SOUTH STATES DEEP SOUTH STATES

State	Ark	Fla	N.C.	Tenn	Tex	Vir	Alab	Ga.	La	Miss	S.C.
1970	22*	NA	26#	NA	16	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
1972	NA	NA	24#	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
1974	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
1976	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	35*	NA	NA	NA	11d	NA
1978	26	34	29	34	28	34*	22	18	18	25	31
1980	21*	32	NA	37#	33	40*	NA	NA	NA	NA	45
1982	24*	45	36	NA	32	43	25	22+	NA	23	NA
1984	31*	43	40	48#	NA	54	38	NA	NA	28	NA
1986	25*	54	37	NA	39	NA	40	33+	31	35	42
1988	NA	50	40*	NA	41#	44	45	NA	NA	34	NA
1990	NA	55	46	46	49	48#	40	NA	NA	37	52
1992	NA	45	47	49	50	NA	47	43	NA	43	52
1994	25	46	50*	48	NA	NA	46	49	NA	42	54
1996	32*	50+	51	52	NA	54	49	43	35+	46	51
1998	38*	47	53	48	NA	52	46	NA	NA	43	NA
2000	39	49+	49*	47*	55+	51+	48#	47+	41+	40	54+
2002	46	NA	50	54*	60	NA	49#	NA	NA	49	NA
2004	46	53+	51	52*	57+	53+	NA	55+	49+	51	57+
2006	NA	53+	NA	55	NA	NA	NA	58+	NA	51	NA

Note: Cell entries are % Republican of two-party identifiers. Partisan groupings exclude independent leaners (except for 1992, 1994, and 1998 Florida poll results).

+ From exit poll of voters, not all adults.

* Pooled results from more than one poll conducted that year.

# Drawn from one or more polls from adjacent, odd-numbered years (except for 1970 North Carolina, where poll conducted two years before)

Sources: For Arkansas, see Barth, Blair, and Dumas (1999); Blair and Savage (1988), Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985), Barth (2003), Blair and Barth (2005), Lamis (1990), Dowdle and Wekkin (2007). For Florida, see Carver and Fiedler (1999); Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985); Parker (1988); Tenpas, Hulbary, and Bowman (1997); Florida Annual Policy Survey (Odom Institute for Research in Social Science); Scicchitano and Scher (2007); Bullock and Rozell (2007b); a 2006 CNN exit poll. For North Carolina, see Lamis (1990); Christensen and Fleer (1999); Fleer, Lowery, and Prysby (1988); Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985); Prysby (2007); polls archived at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC, Chapel Hill (website: http://152.2.32.107/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=210). For Tennessee, see Bruce, Clark, Gant, and Daugherty (2003); Mason (2003); Lamis (1990); Ashford and Locker (1999); Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985); Swansbrough and Brodsky (1988); the MTSU Poll (2000-6), http://www.mtsusurveygroup.org/mtpoll/. For Texas, see Lamis (1990); Murray and Attlesey (1999); Vedlitz, Dyer, and Hill (1988); Feigert and McWilliams (1995); Feigert and Todd (1994); Bullock and Rozell (2007a, b); Feigert, Miller, Cunningham, and Burlage (2003). For Virginia, see Rozell (2007); Lamis (1990); Edds and Morris (1999); McGlennon (1988); Bullock and Rozell (2007b); the Commonwealth Poll (July 1988, January 1991, July 1996, May 1998) cited in Shaffer, Pierce, and Kohnke (2000). For Alabama, see Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985), Cotter and Gordon (1999), Cotter (2002), Stanley (2003), Cotter (2007), communication from Professor Patrick R. Cotter. For Georgia, see Lamis (1990); Binford, Baxter, and Sturrock (1999); Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985); Binford (1988); Bullock and Rozell (2007b); and website http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/GA/G/00/epolls.0.html. For Louisiana, see Lamis (1990); Renwick, Parent, and Wardlaw (1999); Parent and Perry (2007); Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985), Parent (1988), Hadley and Knuckey (1997), Bullock and Rozell (2007b). For Mississippi, see Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985); Bass and DeVries (1977); Breaux, Shaffer, and Gresham (2007); the Mississippi Poll project (see: http://sds17.pspa.msstate.edu/poll/poll.html). For South Carolina, see Broach and Bandy (1999), Graham (1988), Lamis (1990), Wright, Erikson, and McIver (1985), Steed and Moreland (2007), Bullock and Rozell (2007b).