e/Solid South

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has gloss	eng: Solid South refers to the electoral support of the Southern United States for the Democratic Party candidates for nearly a century from 1877, the end of the Reconstruction, to 1964, during the middle of the Civil Rights era. The Democratic Party was also a vehicle of segregation in the South during the time when whites fully controlled the Party, whose primaries were tantamount to election in most of the region. Erosion of the South's largely one-party apparatus, as blacks began regaining voting rights and identifying with the Democratic Party, rendered the region free to return to the two-party competition which characterizes the United States as a whole and which had even characterized the South prior to the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
lexicalization	eng: Solid south
instance of	c/United States presidential elections terms

Meaning
German
has gloss	deu: Der Begriff Solid South (deutsch etwa Geschlossener Süden) war bereits während der Reconstruction in den 1870er Jahren als Schlagwort für die politische, gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Geschlossenheit der US-amerikanischen Südstaaten bekannt. Später wurde er vor allem zum Synonym für die großen Wahlerfolge der Demokratischen Partei in diesen Staaten von 1876 bis 1964 bei Präsidentschafts- wie bei sonstigen Wahlen.
lexicalization	deu: Solid South

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