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Abstract
Recent changes in the voting patterns of Southern whites have raised questions about the causes of this drastic change. Using a variety of ideological and issue questions from the longitudinal versions of the American National Election Studies, it is possible to examine several potential explanations. The data show that while many Southern whites do not differ significantly in their perceptions of the Democratic and Republican parties, their positions on moral and social issues first raised during the 1980s continue to attract many Southern whites to the arms of the Republican Party.