Southern Democrats held very powerful positions in Congress, and Roosevelt felt it was necessary to placate them to ensure the passage of his New Deal legislation. Identify the statements that describe the political monopoly in the South. A) Democratic incumbents were elected election after election, so as a result very few eligible voters bothered to cast ballots in the region. B) Social Security law excluded agricultural and domestic workers because these were the largest categories of black employment, and southerners wanted to exclude them from the benefits. C) After blacks lost the right to vote, Republicans had no chance in the South, and as a result Democrats held a political monopoly in the region.