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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 ...
Sean Trende, senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics, who argues against realignment theory and the "emerging Democratic majority" thesis proposed by journalist John Judis and political scientist Ruy Teixeira in his 2012 book The Lost Majority states, "Almost none of the theories propounded by realignment theorists has endured the test of ...
United States presidential election results from the year 2000 onwards. 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.
American political parties are gradually changing right before our eyes.
Since the 1970s, the Democratic Party has realigned—a shift that might have cost Kamala Harris the White House.
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 1896 Realignment," American Politics Research, (Jan 2005) 33#1 pp. 3–32 Wanat, John and Karen Burke, "Estimating the Degree of Mobilization and Conversion in the 1890s: An Inquiry into the Nature of Electoral Change," American Political Science Review, (1982) 76#2 pp. 360–70 in JSTOR