Editing Amite County, Mississippi (section)

==Politics==
Political affiliation and voting patterns in federal elections generally follow those of other traditional southern states, where strong affiliation of conservative whites to the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] dominated during the period up to and just beyond the [[Civil rights movement|Civil Rights era]] of the 1960s and 1970s. With the rise of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] of [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Ronald Reagan]], the white population gradually began to support Republican national candidates, and ultimately shifted into the party. Given the support of the national Democratic Party leaders through the civil rights years, African-American voters affiliated with that party.

In several elections between World War II and the Civil Rights period, in a period of increasing social change, the white people of Amite County (who were the only ones able to vote in that period) voted for third-party candidates, including [[Dixiecrat]] candidate [[Strom Thurmond]] in 1948 (after Democratic President [[Harry S. Truman]] had taken action that year to integrate the military), [[Harry F. Byrd]] in 1960, and segregationist [[George Wallace]] in 1968.

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{{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,503|2,620|73|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,289|2,697|64|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|4,414|3,242|50|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|4,245|3,348|57|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|4,147|3,012|38|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,677|2,673|58|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|2,521|2,824|371|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,561|2,608|512|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,333|2,834|19|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,463|2,569|18|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|2,653|3,229|89|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|2,256|2,574|169|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|2,846|1,185|97|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|393|1,533|3,206|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|2,742|103|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1960|Dixiecrat|283|338|1,655|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|255|802|659|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|777|1,121|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|17|55|1,559|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|87|1,426|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|64|1,435|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|56|1,421|15|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|73|1,237|8|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|325|1,189|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|86|926|0|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|90|578|5|Mississippi}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|16|1,024|6|Mississippi}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|5|666|15|Mississippi}}