Party Politics, 1932-1968
New Deal Coalition | Republican Party |
---|---|
Southern Whites | Middle-class Western and Northern Whites |
African Americans (in net) | -- |
Labor Unions | Anti-Communists |
Working class, urban machines | Businessmen and educated professionals |
Catholics (somewhat) | Protestants (somewhat) |
US Political History Since 1974
Democratic Goals, 1972-2016
(Joe Biden, first elected to the Senate in 1972)
Republican Goals, 1972-2016
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.
Kevin Philips, Nixon Strategist.
Nixon's Major Policies Achievements
Groups up for grabs in the 1970s, politically: