What Election Ended the Solid South?

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1956. Eisenhower carried LA, and loss South Carolina by 'normal' margins.

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I'd say 1968.  Every single southern state besides Texas went Republican or for Wallace.

Possibly, but I still think 1952 was when the Solid south started to break up.

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It wasn't a single election. It was over time. I'd have to say it was the 1910s/1920s when the Democrats began their move to the left and the Republican's to the right. The Populist Party largely effected this when the Democrats technically absorbed them. From this point onward, the Democrats lost steam in the south, and when Truman and Stevenson were our nominees, we were luck to win the south. But largely 1960, as it was Kennedy's perceived liberalism that cost him many southern electoral votes, and the Nixon/Goldwater wing of the party managed to appeal to the neo-segregationism that influenced many states. Nixon himself didn't support this, but he would do anything to become president.

Goldwater didn't support segregation.