Editing Greene County, Alabama (section)

==Government==
Greene County is strongly [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]], but the nature of the membership has changed since the late 20th century. After the Civil War, conservative whites of the South continued in the Democratic Party. After being emancipated and gaining the franchise, African Americans generally joined the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] of President [[Abraham Lincoln]]. After [[African Americans]] were disfranchised in Alabama in 1901 and other former [[Confederate States of America|Confederate states]], the Democratic Party was even more exclusively white in Greene County and throughout the South. In the late 20th century, after civil rights legislation enabled African Americans to vote again, they joined the national Democratic Party.

The last Republican to win the county in a presidential election was [[Barry Goldwater]] in the [[1964 United States presidential election in Alabama|1964]]. It was only one of nine counties to back Goldwater and McGovern, all of which are located in the [[Deep South]].{{Efn|The other counties to vote for both Goldwater and McGovern were the nearby "Black Belt" counties of [[Bullock County, Alabama|Bullock]], [[Lowndes County, Alabama|Lowndes]], [[Sumter County, Alabama|Sumter]], and [[Wilcox County, Alabama|Wilcox]] in Alabama, the majority-black Mississippi counties of [[Claiborne County, Mississippi|Claiborne]], [[Holmes County, Mississippi|Holmes]], and [[Jefferson County, Mississippi|Jefferson]], and [[West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana]]}} Since then, the county has been one of the most Democratic in the state of Alabama, supporting the candidates of that party by overwhelming margins.<ref>https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/</ref>
{{PresHead|place=Greene County, Alabama|source=<ref name="DL">{{cite web|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|access-date=November 15, 2016}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|885|3,133|21|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|875|3,884|16|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|838|4,013|29|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|804|4,521|18|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|876|4,408|21|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|958|3,764|26|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|850|3,504|42|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|796|3,526|102|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|805|3,865|211|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,048|3,295|34|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|1,361|3,675|173|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|1,034|3,474|30|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|903|2,900|15|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|1,404|3,235|96|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|180|2,229|1,560|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|1,124|0|587|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|381|723|19|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|309|691|44|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|430|674|1|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|31|0|625|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|45|676|1|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|77|894|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|20|861|3|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|9|665|20|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|39|601|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|5|408|2|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|10|520|1|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|9|383|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|94|418|4|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|12|423|4|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|17|477|3|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|107|964|19|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|503|1,864|39|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|355|2,129|511|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|778|1,401|2|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|1,304|625|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1880|Republican|1,463|943|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1876|Republican|2,686|1,055|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1872|Republican|2,516|1,195|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1868|Republican|2,927|869|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1860|Constitutional Union|0|157|1,361|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1856|Know Nothing|0|694|784|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1852|Whig|694|555|10|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1848|Whig|1,088|712|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1844|Whig|1,090|819|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1840|Whig|1,366|790|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1836|Whig|1,116|672|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1832|Democratic|0|1,082|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1828|Democratic|344|833|0|Alabama}}
{{PresFoot|1824|Democratic|283|343|86|Alabama}}