Elections and Voting

November 13, 2008 - Over the last week, there's been no shortage of punditry suggesting the 2008 election showed that the South is declining in political relevance, somehow out of step with the rest of the country's march to the left.

November 12, 2008 - One of the new faces elected to Congress this month is Florida Rep.

November 12, 2008 - As Timothy Noah at Slate and others have pointed out, President-elect Barack Obama didn't do great with white voters.

November 12, 2008 - There's a lot of astoundingly superficial and unhelpful analysis floating around about what the 2008 elections mean for the South.

November 11, 2008 - The Secret Service is blaming Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's harsh attacks on Barack Obama in the final weeks of the campaign for triggering a dramatic spike in death threats against the future president -- but that revelation hasn't stopped a Georgia politician from further ratchet

November 11, 2008 - As Facing South reported earlier this month, Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel (R) sent letters to 4,770 registered voters telling them that they would have to cast

November 11, 2008 - As we all know, in the South there are lots of white Democrats who vote for Republican presidents. Ever since the 1960s, the Civil Rights Act and Nixon's Southern Strategy, Republicans have succeeded in peeling off a growing share of presidential votes from white Democrats in the region.