This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Alton B. Parker1904
+46.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+27.1 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +44.1 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+14.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+37.8 · U.S. R+23.2
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · +14.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
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South · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in South, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton901Obama505Edwards12All others113,653,266 votes · 1419 of 1422 countiesprimary
Obama381All others1341,251,257 votes · 515 of 1422 countiesprimary
Clinton1141Sanders2819,882,638 votes · 1422 of 1422 countiesprimary
Biden1363Sanders53Bloomberg5Warren112,138,575 votes · 1422 of 1422 countiesprimary
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+9.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+11.0
South registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 20-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in South
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
6,080,103
2,784,896
1,945,580
1,345,669
3,958
2012 (partial)
6,655,302
2,872,841
2,053,881
1,709,207
19,373
2017 (partial)
12,876,381
4,815,749
4,550,146
3,447,811
62,675
2019 (partial)
13,508,317
4,977,612
4,750,402
3,635,437
144,866
2021 (partial)
14,284,920
5,095,008
5,120,076
3,816,816
253,020
2023 (partial)
13,540,135
4,460,831
5,158,753
3,607,279
313,272
2026 (partial)
9,214,990
3,859,476
3,034,376
2,134,942
186,196
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+357,790 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +6,352,118 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in South in South: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+312,610
2012
+344,278
2013
+300,008
2014
+374,593
2015
+453,543
2016
+441,519
2017
+366,143
2018
+348,608
2019
+407,913
2021
+732,442
2022
+836,925
2023
+677,221
2024
+398,525
2025
+357,790
South sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 45.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 37.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 5.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.0 points.
A population of 129,288,316, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,534 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Midwest and West.
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South, United States. Akashic. https://akashic.app/region/south/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
In 2024, South, United States voted Republican by 11.0 points (R+11.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 58,313,658 votes cast, 25,509,125 went Democratic and 31,947,311 went Republican.
When did South, United States last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which South, United States voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in South, United States?
South, United States has a population of 129,288,316 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in South, United States?
Median household income in South, United States is $77,534 — below the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of South, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in South, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 20 went Democratic and 14 went Republican.
