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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 ...
Democrats and Republicans have diverged on the seriousness of the threat posed by climate change, with Democrats' assessment rising significantly in the mid-2010s. [ 32 ] The sharp divide over the existence of and responsibility for global warming and climate change falls largely along political lines. [ 33 ]
Democrats believe that the people of Puerto Rico should determine their ultimate political status from permanent options that do not conflict with the Constitution, laws, and policies of the United States. Democrats are committed to promoting economic opportunity and good-paying jobs for the hardworking people of Puerto Rico.
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 ...
The Republicans splintered during the 1824 presidential election. Those calling for a return to the older founding principles of the party were often referred to as "Democratic Republicans" (later Democrats) while those embracing the newer nationalist principles of "The American System" were often referred to as National Republicans (later Whigs).
Democratic Party activists have been on a mission to flip all of the state’s urban counties — once Republican bulwarks — as they look to chip away at the GOP’s decades-long hold on the ...
From 1984, CBS joined ABC in labeling Republicans red and Democrats blue. CNN switched at the 1992 presidential election and NBC followed suit in 1996, though it chose more of a pink shade for ...
Historically, Southern Democrats were generally much more conservative than conservative Democrats are now, and formed the Democratic half of the conservative coalition. [46] After the 1994 Republican Revolution , the Republican Party won a majority of U.S. House seats in the South for the first time since Reconstruction, with the remaining ...