Abstract
In 1994 the Republicans won a majority of the southern seats in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since Reconstruction. Republican success in southern House elections occurred after the 1990 redisricting in which southern states were required to concentrate minority voters in an effort to elect the maximum possible number of minority representatives. This article argues that while redistricting was a factor in Republican gains in southern House elections, the nationalization of southern House elections was also a boon to Republicans. Presidential and House elections converged as a large majority of conservative southern districts elected Republican representatives. In 1994 Republican House candidates received the same large majority of the southern white vote that the GOP's presidential candidates have won in recent elections.
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