Answer:
A. Democrats lost political support in the South
Explanation:
Connexus US History & Constitution: Unit 13, Lesson 3
"Southern Democrats, who came to be called the Dixiecrats, continued to oppose the advances made by the civil rights movement. In the century before, starting with the formation of the Republican Party, the Democratic Party had tended to dominate the South. But when Democrats Kennedy and Johnson aligned themselves on the side of civil rights, party loyalties were challenged and broken.
In the 1968 presidential election, many Dixiecrats backed third-party candidate George Wallace. Wallace was the former governor of Alabama and a strong supporter of segregation. In future elections, the same people were pulled toward Republican candidates, such as Richard Nixon. Since 1960, no Democratic candidate for president, with the exception of Georgia governor Jimmy Carter in 1976, has been able to win the majority of southern states."
