Editing Democratic Party (United States) (section)

=== Region ===
{{See also|Solid South}}
[[File:White voters.jpg|thumb|300px|White vote in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]] by state.<ref name="White Voters"/><ref name="Cohn-2014"/>]]
[[File:Hispanic and Latino Americans by state.svg|thumb|300px|Proportion of Americans who are Hispanic or Latino in each U.S. state, [[District of Columbia|DC]], and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census]]
Geographically, the party is strongest in the [[Northeastern United States]], parts of the [[Great Lakes region]] and [[Southwestern United States]], and the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]]. The party is also very strong in [[List of United States cities by population|major cities]], regardless of region.<ref name="cities"/>

The Democratic Party gradually lost its power in the [[Southern United States]] since [[1964 United States presidential election|1964]]. Although [[Richard Nixon]] carried 49 states in [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]], including every Southern state, the Republican Party remained quite weak at the local and state levels across the entire South for decades. Republicans first won a majority of U.S. House seats in the South in the [[1994 United States elections|1994]] "[[Republican Revolution]]", and only began to dominate the South after the [[2010 United States elections|2010 elections]].<ref name="The long goodbye">{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2010/11/11/the-long-goodbye|date=November 11, 2010|newspaper=The Economist|title=The long goodbye|quote=In 1981 Republicans took control of the Senate for the first time since 1953, but most Southern elected officials remained white Democrats. When Republicans took control of the House in 1995, white Democrats still comprised one-third of the South's tally. ... white Southern Democrats have met their Appomattox: they will account for just 24 of the South's 155 senators and congressmen in the 112th United States Congress.|access-date=February 20, 2023}}</ref> Since the 2010s, [[White Southerners]] are the Republican Party's strongest racial demographic, in some [[Deep South]] states voting nearly as Republican as African Americans vote Democratic.<ref name="Cohn-2014"/> This is partially attributable to religiosity, with White [[evangelical Christianity|evangelical Christians]] in the [[Bible Belt]], which covers most of the South, being the Republican party's strongest religious demographic.<ref name="White Voters">{{Cite web|url=https://split-ticket.org/2023/03/24/where-do-democrats-win-white-voters/|title=Where Do Democrats Win White Voters?|date=March 24, 2023|access-date=January 13, 2025|website=Split Ticket|first1=Lakshya|last1=Jain|first2=Harrison|last2=Lavelle|first3=Armin|last3=Thomas}}</ref>

The Democratic Party is particularly strong in the West Coast and Northeastern United States. In particular, the Democratic Party receives its strongest support from White voters in these two regions. This is attributable to the two regions having the highest educational attainment in the country and being part of the "[[Unchurched Belt]]," with the lowest rates of religiosity in the country.<ref name="White Voters"/> 

The Democratic Party's support in the [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] and [[Southwestern United States|Southwest]] are more mixed, with varying levels of support from White voters in both regions. In the Midwest, the Democratic Party receives varying levels of support, with some states safely Democratic, some [[swing states|swing states]], and some safely Republican. In the Southwest, the Democratic Party also relies on [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] voters. As of 2025, Democrats control both Senate seats in the Southwestern states of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and California.<ref name="The New West">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-16/columnist-mark-z-barabak-the-new-west|title=A series on political shifts in the West|first1=Mark Z.|website=Los Angeles Times|last1=Barabak|date=November 2023 |access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref>

The Democratic Party is particularly weak in the [[Great Plains]] and some [[Mountain states]]. In particular, the states of [[Idaho]], [[Utah]], [[Wyoming]], [[North Dakota]], [[South Dakota]], [[Nebraska]],{{efn|Three Democrats ([[Barack Obama]] in 2008, [[Joe Biden]] in 2020, and [[Kamala Harris]] in 2024) have since won an electoral vote from [[Nebraska's 2nd congressional district|Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District]], but Johnson remains the last Democrat to carry the state as a whole.}} [[Kansas]], and [[Oklahoma]] have not voted for the Democratic Party since the [[1964 United States presidential election|1964 presidential election]]. [[Montana]] has not voted for the Democratic Party since the [[1992 United States presidential election|1992 presidential election]].<ref name="how">Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016</ref>