<P> The Democrats took control of the House in 1910 and elected Woodrow Wilson as President in 1912 (when the Republicans split) and 1916 . Wilson effectively led Congress to put to rest the issues of tariffs, money and antitrust, which had dominated politics for 40 years, with new progressive laws . He failed to pass the Versailles Treaty (which involved joining the League of Nations). The weak party was deeply divided by issues such as the KKK and prohibition in the 1920s . However it did organize new ethnic voters in Northern cities . </P> <P> The Great Depression in 1929 that occurred under Republican President Herbert Hoover and the Republican Congress set the stage for a more liberal government as the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives nearly uninterrupted from 1930 until 1994 and won most presidential elections until 1968 . Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected to the presidency in 1932, came forth with government programs called the New Deal . New Deal liberalism meant the regulation of business (especially finance and banking) and the promotion of labor unions as well as federal spending to aid to the unemployed, help distressed farmers and undertake large - scale public works projects . It marked the start of the American welfare state . The opponents, who stressed opposition to unions, support for business and low taxes, started calling themselves "conservatives". </P> <P> Until the 1980s, the Democratic Party was a coalition of two parties divided by the Mason--Dixon line: liberal Democrats in the North and culturally conservative voters in the South, who though benefitting from many of the New Deal public works projects opposed increasing civil rights initiatives advocated by Northeastern liberals . The polarization grew stronger after Roosevelt died . Southern Democrats formed a key part of the bipartisan conservative coalition in an alliance with most of the Midwestern Republicans . The economically activist philosophy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which has strongly influenced American liberalism, shaped much of the party's economic agenda after 1932 . From the 1930s to the mid-1960s, the liberal New Deal coalition usually controlled the presidency while the conservative coalition usually controlled Congress . </P> <P> Issues facing parties and the United States after World War II included the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement . Republicans attracted conservatives and white Southerners from the Democratic coalition with their use of the Southern strategy and resistance to New Deal and Great Society liberalism . African Americans had traditionally supported the Republican Party because of its anti-slavery civil rights policies . However they began supporting Democrats following the ascent of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the New Deal, the integration of the military and embrace of proposed civil rights legislation by President Harry Truman in 1947--1948 and the postwar Civil Rights movement . The Democratic Party's main base of support shifted to the Northeast, marking a dramatic reversal of history . </P>

Which of the following is the strongest region for the democratic party today