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A political realignment is a set of sharp changes in party related ideology, issues, leaders, regional bases, demographic bases, and/or the structure of powers within a government. Often also referred to as a critical election, critical realignment, or realigning election, in the academic fields of political science and political history. These ...
American political parties are gradually changing right before our eyes.
"A basic realignment occurred in the relations between social forces and political institutions, often including but not limited to the political party system." "The prevailing ethos promoting reform in the name of traditional ideals was, in a sense, both forward-looking and backward-looking, progressive and conservative."
Contrary to popular left-wing narratives, Democrats’ suburban realignment did not mean the party abandoned all of its priorities. Overall, in the last three decades, the federal government has ...
Political realignment comes to Florida. Florida’s Hispanic vote is pivotal. “We are increasingly becoming a Hispanic state,” said Christopher McCarty, director of the Bureau of Economic and ...
The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History dates the start of the Sixth Party system in 1980, with the election of Reagan and a Republican Senate. [16] Arthur Paulson argues, "Whether electoral change since the 1960s is called 'realignment' or not, the 'sixth party system' emerged between 1964 and 1972." [17]
The viewpoint that the electoral realignment of the Republican party due to a race-driven Southern Strategy is also known as the "top-down" viewpoint. [7] [192] Most scholarship and analysts support this top-down viewpoint and state that the political shift was due primarily to racial issues.
Democrats need a fundamental change in direction now to head off a U.S. political realignment around a new populist right majority. To regain their competitiveness, Democrats must reinvent themselves.