1968- Present: Southern Realignment and the Era of Divided Party Government (31 ago 1968 ano – 19 dez 2036 ano)

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Party realignment in the South did not happen as quickly as Nixon would have liked, but it has taken place gradually over the four decades since 1968.
Democrats held the vast majority of the South’s Senate seats in the late 1960s and the 1970s, ever since the Congress of 1995–1996 the Republicans have been the dominant party in the South.
Today, it is difficult for either one to gain a strong enough foothold to maintain simultaneous control for very long