Kentucky and Missouri both had dual competing Confederate and Unionist governments with the Confederate government of Kentucky and Confederate government of Missouri. The southern slave states that stayed in the Union were Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky, and they were referred to as the border states.
Southern block plus#
Eleven of these slave states plus an additional two claimed by the Confederacy seceded from the United States to form the Confederacy: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Slavery was also legal in the District of Columbia. Unshaded areas were not states before or during the Civil WarĪt the start of the American Civil War, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which were slave states.
Southern block free#
Blue represents free Union states, including those admitted during the war light blue represents southern border states and Missouri and Kentucky had dual competing Confederate and Unionist governments red represents Confederate states. History (1865 to 1965) United States during the Civil War. From the early part of the 20th century on, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and West Virginia ceased to be reliably Democratic (although West Virginia once again became a reliably Democratic state with the New Deal era). Delaware, the least secessionist slave state, was considered a reliable state for the Democratic Party, as was Missouri, classified as a Midwestern state by the U.S. After Reconstruction, all the former slave states were dominated by the Democratic Party for at least two decades. The idea of the Solid South shifted over time and did not always necessarily correspond to the census definition. Census comprises sixteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, plus Washington, D.C. The "Solid South" is a loose term referring to the states that made up the voting bloc at any point in time. White primaries were another means that the Democrats used to consolidate their political power, excluding blacks from voting in primaries. This resulted essentially in a one-party system, in which a candidate's victory in Democratic primary elections was tantamount to election to the office itself. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Southern Democrats disenfranchised blacks in all Southern states, along with a few non-Southern states doing the same as well. During this period, the Democratic Party overwhelmingly controlled southern state legislatures, and most local, state and federal officeholders in the South were Democrats.
The Southern bloc existed between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Solid South or the Southern bloc was the electoral voting bloc of the states of the Southern United States for issues that were regarded as particularly important to the interests of Democrats in those states. Arkansas voted Democratic in all 23 presidential elections from 1876 through 1964 other states were not quite as solid but generally supported Democrats for president.
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