His presence on the ballot could help reassure moderate and conservative Southerners.

A conservative Southerner, Garner opposed the sit-down strikes of the labor unions and the New Deal's deficit spending.

Arizona became a state in 1912, but it had many conservative Southerners and its new constitution did not include women's suffrage.

After 1968, with desegregation a settled issue, the Republicans began a strategy of trying to win conservative Southerners away from the Democrats and into the Republican Party.

First, the long exodus of conservative white Southerners has made the Democratic Party more ideologically homogenous.

Some conservative Southerners, who helped Mr. Bush win the White House, say they are angry enough about job losses to vote for someone else in 2004.

Her father, George Craven, was a conservative Southerner who became a prosperous lawyer in the trusts and estates division of a large Philadelphia firm.

But they indicate that beginning in the Reagan years, conservative Southerners have increasingly identified themselves as Republicans.

Over time, they became solidly entrenched and increasingly powerful in a manner similar to that of the old conservative Southerners.

He's faced with a choice between three Northern liberals and a conservative Southerner.