State Legislatures

[Democratic Hawk]

Do the Democrats still control any Senate's or Legislature's in the 'Confederacy'?

Dave

[Keystone Phil]

Do the Democrats still control any Senate's or Legislature's in the 'Confederacy'?

Dave

Yes. I know for a fact the Dems still control the state legislature in Georgia and I'm sure there are a few others (Georgia is the only one I know for a fact is controlled by Dems.)

[Sarnstrom]

State Legislatures:

Alabama:
State Senate: 25 D 10 R
State House: 63 D 42 R

Arkansas:
State Senate: 27 D 8 R
State House: 70 D 30 R

Florida:
State Senate: 26 R 14 D
State House: 81 R 39 D

Georgia:
State Senate: 30 R 26 D
State House: 106 D 73 R 1 I

Louisiana:
State Senate: 26 D 13 R
State House: 71 D 34 R

Maryland:
State Senate: 33 D 14 R
State House of Delegates: 98 D 43 R

Mississippi:
State Senate: 29 D 23 R
State House: 84 D 35 R 3 I

North Carolina:
State Senate: 28 D 22 R
State House: 60 D 60 R

South Carolina:
State Senate: 25 R 21 D
State House: 73 R 51 D

Tennessee:
State Senate: 18 D 15 R
State House: 54 D 45 R

Texas:
State Senate: 19 R 12 D
State House: 88 R 62 D

Virginia:
State Senate: 23 R 17 D
State House of Delegates: 65 R 33 D 2 I

[??????????]

You forgot Maryland, Sarn.

[Sarnstrom]

Sorry States, it's fixed now.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

So in other words, the Democrats control just about every state legislature in the old Confederacy.

[jimrtex]

Do the Democrats still control any Senate's or Legislature's in the 'Confederacy'?

National Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/

[Democratic Hawk]

Thanks Sarn.

Dave

[Defarge]

You'd be surprised about state legislatures.  New York has a Republican governor and a republican dominated state senate

[cwelsch]

Notice the four GOP states: Florida, Texas, Virginia, South Carolina.  South Carolina no doubt was striongly influenced by Strom.

The other three are 1) at the outskirts of the South, 2) the richest states in the South, 3) the most populous states of the South, 4) subject to massive Yankee migration.

This is why I have trouble believing that 'parties switched' thing.  I think mostly one demographic and one highly visible faction switched - black people to the Democrats in the 1910s and '20s, and the national Dixiecrats to the GOP in the 1980s.  But a lot stuck around to vote for Carter and a lot of Dixiecrats are still big Democrats.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Notice the four GOP states: Florida, Texas, Virginia, South Carolina.  South Carolina no doubt was striongly influenced by Strom.

The other three are 1) at the outskirts of the South, 2) the richest states in the South, 3) the most populous states of the South, 4) subject to massive Yankee migration.

This is why I have trouble believing that 'parties switched' thing.  I think mostly one demographic and one highly visible faction switched - black people to the Democrats in the 1910s and '20s, and the national Dixiecrats to the GOP in the 1980s.  But a lot stuck around to vote for Carter and a lot of Dixiecrats are still big Democrats.

More-or-less true... it's worth remembering that if (say) Georgia had the same demographics as it did 50 odd years ago it would probably have voted for Gore 4 years ago.