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Democrats believe that the government should protect the environment and have a history of environmentalism. [citation needed] In more recent years, this stance has had as its emphasis alternative energy generation as the basis for an improved economy, greater national security, and general environmental benefits. [35]
Democrats and Republicans have diverged on the seriousness of the threat posed by climate change, with Republicans' assessment essentially unchanged over the past decade. [ 29 ] The sharp divide over the existence of and responsibility for global warming and climate change falls largely along political lines. [ 30 ]
The Democrats were known as "basically conservative and agrarian-oriented", and like the Republicans, the Democrats were a broad-based voting coalition. Democratic support came from the Redeemers of the Jim Crow " Solid South " (i.e. solidly Democratic), where "repressive legislation and physical intimidation [were] designed to prevent newly ...
Democrats should recognize these concerns and commit to working with Republicans to pass bipartisan immigration reform without surrendering to Trump’s plans for mass deportations.
A political spectrum is a system to characterize and classify different political positions in relation to one another. These positions sit upon one or more geometric axes that represent independent political dimensions. [1]
“Republicans do not always practice the rhetoric, policies and approaches they preach. Democrats are more faithful practitioners of what they preach, but I don’t think theirs is the right ...
The US House of Representatives voted on December 20 to avert a government shutdown with just hours to spare, with Democrats joining Republicans to advance a funding bill keeping the lights on ...
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...