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Electoral Realignment
and
Critical Elections
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Electoral Realignment
Voting patterns are changed by some critical issue, event, or leader and remain changed for an extended period of time (perhaps many decades).
A major shift in political divisions in the country.
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Critical ElectionsAn election in which a party is defeated so badly that it disappears or seems that it may disappear.
Issues are often crosscutting, dividing both major parties.
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Critical ElectionsCritical Elections
• 1860- Solid South
• 1896- Republican Ascendancy
• 1932- FDR Democrats
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Republican PartyRepublican Party
Abraham Abraham LincolnLincoln
The Republican platform opposed
slavery in the territories but upheld the right of slavery in the South.
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Lasting Impact: Lasting Impact:
Republican Party becomes a Republican Party becomes a Major PartyMajor Party
The Solid South FormsThe Solid South Forms
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Election of 1896Election of 1896
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“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor
this crown of thorns, you shall
not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
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Central Issues: Tariff, Central Issues: Tariff, Depression, and the Gold Depression, and the Gold
Standard versus an Unlimited Standard versus an Unlimited Coinage of SilverCoinage of Silver
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Lasting Impact:
Republican Party AscendancyRepublican Party Ascendancy
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Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, circa 1906
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“Bolt” the Ticket and Bolt” the Ticket and Challenge Former PartyChallenge Former Party
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Election of 1932Election of 1932
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Central Issues: Stock Market Central Issues: Stock Market Crash and the Great Crash and the Great Depression BeginsDepression Begins
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Lasting Impact: New Deal Coalition
• Labor
• Middle-Class Liberals
• Southerners (Solid South)
• European Immigrants
• Urban Factory Workers
• Catholics
• Ethnic Minorities
• Jews
• Farmers
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A New Party System?
A New System?:
Candidate-centered politics
and Dealignment
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DealignmentDealignment
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