High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Politics of the Southern United States (or Southern politics) refers to the political landscape of the Southern United States. Due to the region`s unique cultural and historic heritage, the American South has been prominently involved in numerous political issues faced by the United States as a whole, including States` rights, slavery, the American Civil War, and the American Civil Rights Movement. Due to the South`s conservative political leanings and political power, the South has seen the start of several political movements (such as George C. Wallace`s American Independent Party) and the region has played a crucial role in Presidential politics as the South provided the winners in the presidential elections of 1976, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 (and the loser in 1980 and 1992).