The distinctiveness of southern electoral behavior has been a well-studied aspect of politics in the region. While distinctiveness can refer to absolute differences in attitudes and behavior, it also can refer to the structure of electoral behavior, and that is the focus of this article. Developments in the region and in the nation suggest that the structure of electoral behavior may no longer be different in the North and the South. This possibility is examined using data from several recent General Social Surveys, merged to yield large Ns for the regions. The analysis results show little difference between the regions in both the social and the attitudinal sources of partisan choice.
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