From the inception of Bob Jones College, a majority of students and faculty were northerners, and therefore many were already Republicans living in the " Solid South.

Hoover managed to crack the so-called " Solid South ", winning such Democratic strongholds as Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Tennessee ; the Deep South stood with Smith.

In 1889 – 90, Republicans undertook one last stand in favor of federal enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment to protect the voting rights of blacks in the Solid South.

President Harding contended with racial problems on a national level, rather than sectional, and openly advocated African American political, educational, and economic equality inside the Solid South.

Harding went further and viewed the race problem as a national and international issue and desired that the sectionalism of the Solid South and black membership of the Republican party be broken up.

To break hold of the resurgent Democratic Party in the Solid South, Garfield cautiously gave senatorial patronage privilege to Virginia Senator William Mahone of the biracial independent Readjuster Party.

However, Roosevelt won a comfortable victory by building strong support from labor unions, urban political machines, ethnic voters, and the traditionally Democratic Solid South.

Truman's victory demonstrated that the Democratic Party could win presidential elections without the " Solid South ", and thus weakened Southern Democrats instead of strengthening their position.

* The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932 – 1968 by Kari Frederickson: University of North Carolina Press ( March 26, 2001 ).

Stevenson lost heavily outside the Solid South ; he won only nine states and lost the Electoral College vote 442 to 89.

After performing in Philadelphia, Washington and Boston, she made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Broken Dishes, and followed it with Solid South.

Representatives of the Solid South, all white Democrats, would likely have stonewalled related legislation.

Democrats had traditionally solid support in Southern states ( which led the region to be dubbed the Solid South ), but this electoral dominance began eroding in 1964, when Barry Goldwater achieved unprecedented GOP support in the Deep South.

King County was once a strongly Democratic county even by Solid South standards.

Part of the Solid South, the county used to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, giving 100 % of its vote to the party in 1924.

To facilitate the distribution of these albums and the other thirty year commemorative merchandise, as well the albums of his other Solid Rock Imports artists, including Swedish band Edin-Adahl, South African Victor Phume, and Swedish white metal band Leviticus, Norman signed an agreement with Royal Music of Sweden to distribute in Europe, and with a newly established Christian distribution company for North American distribution.

Passage was blocked by white Democratic senators from the Solid South, the only representatives elected since southern states disfranchised African Americans at the turn of the century.

The Dixiecrats began the weakening of the " Solid South " ( the Democratic Party's total control of presidential elections in the South ).

It was the " Solid South ".

The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932 – 1968 ( 2001 ) 311 pp. ISBN 0-8078-4910-3. the major scholarly study online edition

* The Dixiecrat Revolt & The End Of The Solid South, University of North Carolina Press

... Our party simply cannot indulge the luxury of a Solid South, handed on a silver platter to the opposition every four years ...."

The term Solid South describes the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates from 1877 ( the end of Reconstruction ) to 1964 ( the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ).

Solid rivets are one of the oldest and most reliable types of fasteners, having been found in archaeological findings dating back to the Bronze Age.

Solid tantalum capacitors are very reliable components if the proper care is taken and all design guidelines are carefully followed.

Solid South refers to the electoral support of white voters in the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates for nearly a century after the Reconstruction era ( 1877 – 1964 ).

To hasten that development, he sought to end the region's nearly automatic support of the Democratic Party, which Byrnes believed had grown too liberal and took the " Solid South " for granted at election time, yet otherwise ignored the region and its needs.

He also provided technical support to the Space Shuttle Main Engine project, the Solid Rocket Motor project and the External Tank project at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Formerly referred to as the Crew Launch Vehicle ( CLV ), the Ares I consisted of a single Solid Rocket Booster ( SRB ) derived from the boosters used in the Space Shuttle system, connected at its upper end by an interstage support assembly to a new liquid-fueled second stage powered by an uprated Apollo-era J-2X rocket engine.

Georgia, along with the rest of the formerly Democratic Solid South, gradually shifted to support Republicans, first in presidential elections.

" Jones's support for Hoover, though quixotic in 1928, was perhaps the earliest harbinger of the demise of the Solid South.

In 1904, Missouri would bolt the Solid South to support Roosevelt while Maryland in a controversial election reminscient of the 2000 Florida Election would award the state to Alton Parker.

The rest of Snake's radio support crew includes Mei Ling ( the only other character from the original Metal Gear Solid besides Snake and Campbell ), a communication expert who saves the player's progress ; Ronard " Weasel " Lensenbrink, a mercenary who provides information about the weapons Snake uses and the enemy he faces ; and Brian McBride, a CIA agent who provides information about the geopolitical environment of Gindra.

They headlined Solid State's " A Very Metal Christmas Tour " with support from Becoming the Archetype, The Famine, To Speak of Wolves, and As They Sleep in December 2010.

Republican candidate Barry Goldwater won many of the " Solid South " states over Democratic candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and this Republican support for those states continues to this day.

The Democrat's support in the formerly Solid South had been eroded during the vast cultural, political and economic upheaval that surrounded the 1960s.

Also during 1983, the Romantics played well-received U. S. and international concert tours in support of In Heat, and appeared on such pop music-themed television shows as Solid Gold, American Bandstand, and Soul Train.

A U. S. Navy ( Weapons Station, Concord ) 1004 was dedicated to printing from tape as a means of offloading the task from their Solid State 80 mainframe, which produced the tapes.

Prior to this appointment Horinko was Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response ( OSWER ) at EPA, having been confirmed by the U. S. Senate on October 1, 2001.

The system's defenders, however, point out that in recent times a large proportion of U. S .- bred horses with low Dosage figures have been sent to race in foreign countries where the distances of races are longer, resulting in most horses competing in the Kentucky Derby and similar American races having relatively high Dosage numbers and / or lacking Solid or Professional chef-de-race representation.

Missouri was also included in the original Solid South although since the early 1900s Missouri has been seen as a Midwestern bellwether state mostly because Missouri is classified as a Midwestern State by the U. S. Census.

Maryland and Delaware are classified by the U. S. Census as Southern States however only Maryland was occasionally classified with the Solid South.

Created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa, she appears in the 1998 stealth game Metal Gear Solid ( as well as its 2004 remake, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes ) as one of the game bosses belonging to the renegade U. S. special operations group FOXHOUND.

Cygan is notable for his television work ( The Commish, The X-Files ) and his voice work ( Star Wars games, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, SOCOM: U. S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo games ).

1997 saw the band return with Solid, the first full-length U. D. O.

* Municipal Solid Waste in the U. S. Factsheet by the University of Michigan's Center for Sustainable Systems