Rick Santorum has won both the Alabama and Mississippi Republican presidential primaries.
The former Pennsylvania senator edged rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney to capture the Deep South states.
Evangelicals played a critical role in both states' vote. Roughly 4 in 5 voters who were surveyed in an exit poll called themselves born-again or evangelical in both Alabama and Mississippi.
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