Much as polls suggested,
Alabama was won by Stevenson with 64.55 percent of the popular vote, against Eisenhower's 35.02 percent. Eisenhower, although not to the same degree as
in Louisiana,
Mississippi and
South Carolina, did gain substantial support from
Black Belt whites who could no longer accept the position of the national Democratic Party on civil rights, although this was largely confined to the central part of that region. Eisenhower's victory in
Dallas County was the first Republican victory in this county since
Rutherford B. Hayes in
1876. In contrast, the northern hill country remained very loyal to Stevenson, and in some counties with traditionally substantial Republican votes like
Winston and
DeKalb Eisenhower actually did worse than
Thomas E. Dewey in
1948. 1952 would mark the last time
Montgomery and
Jefferson counties would vote Democratic in a presidential election until
1996 and
2008 respectively, as both would become epicenters of the
Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. ==See also==