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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 ...
The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History dates the start in 1980, with the election of Reagan and a Republican Senate. [12] Arthur Paulson argues that "[w]hether electoral change since the 1960s is called 'realignment' or not, the 'sixth party system' emerged between 1964 and 1972." [13]
Building New Deal Liberalism: the Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956 (2005) Sundquist, James L. Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States (1983) Taylor, Nick. American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work (2008) comprehensive history; 640pp excerpt
American political parties are gradually changing right before our eyes.
Post-2016 political developments paint a complicated picture for the future. Democrats’ suburban strategy led to a “Blue Tsunami” in 2018, a narrow victory in 2020, and atypically strong ...
The coalitions that make up our parties are changing them from within.
The Southern United States as defined by the Census Bureau. In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.
The Republican Party emerged from the great political realignment of the mid-1850s. William Gienapp argues that the great realignment of the 1850s began before the Whig party demise, and was caused not by politicians but by voters at the local level. The central forces were ethno-cultural, involving tensions between pietistic Protestants versus ...