I didn't realize that the Southern Baptist convention recognizes the doctrine of election.
The so-called Founders' Conferences conducted within the SBC movement have helped to educate a lot of SBC pastors with regard to this interesting point of historical theology. A fair number of SBC pastors have become "Calvinists" as a result of reading the theological arguments presented by their own denomination's founders.
The Calvinistic Baptists continued through the 20th Century, including pockets within the SBC. Most of the Calvinistic Baptists pulled out of the SBC when it became Arminian to a degree that was markedly hostile to predestinarian theology.
As I understand it, the resurgence of conspicuous interest in so-called Calvinistic theology is what got Southern Seminary in Louisville turned inside-out a few years ago. It is now a thoroughly Calvinistic seminary. (The SBC's Al Moeller is a five-point Calvinist, of course, just as John MacArthur is, even though is a non-aligned Baptist.)
The funny thing about all of this is that virtually all Protestants were solid predestinarians in the early days of the Reformation--Lutheran, Presbyterian, Anglican, Congregationalists, most Baptists, and even the Methodists who agreed with the Methodist Whitefield in his controvesy with John Wesley. A large percentage of the Continental Anabaptists were also absolute predestinarians, having maintained this doctrinal perspective for over a thousand years in their occasional doctrinal statements.
The American Lutheran Church even split in 1881 when a Missouri Synod seminary professor proved that Martin Luther believed in absolute predestination. (Nowadays, most folks in the Missouri Synod do not really know why their Synod ever pulled out of the ALC!)
Anway, the doctrine of God's absolute predestination is a doctrinal topic well worth studying.