Beginning in 1992 the South continued its winning ways of setting the national agenda and picking the winner. In 1992 [[Bill Clinton]] reassembled Carter's coalition for the Democrats and carried Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia in 1992, but lost Georgia in 1996.<ref>http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps</ref> [[George W. Bush]] (2000 and 2004) carried every Southern state including Democrat challenger and incumbent Vice President [[Al Gore]]'s home state of Tennessee.
In 2008 Barack Obama broke throughrecaptured portions, carrying Florida, Virginia and North Carolina, leaving the GOP base in disarray. However, the GOP rebounded in the 2012 presidential election, retaking North Carolina.
In the [[2016 U.S. presidential election|2016 presidential election]], every rural, white-majority Southern county voted for the Republican nominee for the first time in history with the historic flip of Elliott County, Kentucky.<ref>Simon, Jeff (December 9, 2016). [http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/09/politics/elliott-county-kentucky-democratic-streak-broken-by-donald-trump/index.html How Trump ended Democrats' 144-year winning streak in one county]. ''CNN''. Retrieved January 15, 2017.</ref>