Election 2016: The Shifting South

This is an occasional series by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that explores the political currents that define our region.

A strange thing is happening in Republican-led states across the South.

A Mexican eatery in a neighborhood dotted with taquerias seemed an unlikely gathering spot for some of Houston’s most ardent conservatives, many who consider halting the flow ...

For South Carolina Democrats, parity with Republicans in 2016 presidential race appears to have been fleeting, but future promises hope.

Donald Trump was 90 minutes late and the crowd packed into the basketball arena on the campus of High Point University was bored, antsy and numbed to the irony of repeated pla...

The message coming out of a local southern-style restaurant on a recent balmy evening here was loud and clear: people shouldn’t buy Donald Trump’s “what the hell do you have t...

The South is hardly a political monolith that votes in neat lockstep.

They promise a conservative “awakening” in America unlike any other seen in the past decade, a show of political force that will rock the Republican electorate.