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The Sixth Party System is the era in United States politics following the Fifth Party System. As with any periodization , opinions differ on when the Sixth Party System may have begun, with suggested dates ranging from the late 1960s to the Republican Revolution of 1994.
Sixth Party System (1964–present), known for the period in which Republicans used the "Southern strategy" to realign Dixiecrats from the South into the party, which began in 1964 when Goldwater became the first Republican since Reconstruction to win the Deep South (although he lost the overall South) [v] and finalized in 1984 when Reagan kept ...
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
First Party System Second Party System Third Party System Fourth Party System Fifth Party System Sixth Party System [3] Year → Class → Congress → 1789 1 1st 1789 2 1st 1789 3 1st 1790 1 2nd 1792 2 3rd 1794 3 4th 1796 1 5th 1798 2 6th 1800 3 7th 1802 1 8th 1804 2 9th 1806 3 10th 1808 1 11th 1810 2 12th 1812 3 13th 1814 1 14th 1816 2 15th ...
Fourth Party System; Fifth Party System; Sixth Party System; Notable events. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Direct election of Senators; Watergate scandal;
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It overlaps with what political scientists call the Sixth Party System. Definitions of the Reagan era universally include the 1980s and the early 1990s, while more extensive definitions may also include the late 1970s, all of the 1990s, and even the 2000s.
In Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process (2011), authors L. Sandy Maisel and Mark D. Brewer argue that the consensus among experts is that the Sixth System is underway based on American electoral politics since the 1960s: Although most in the field now believe we are in a sixth party system, there is a fair amount of ...