Opinion Why Did The Republican And Democratic Parties Swap Sides Since The Civil War?
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I wrote this paper as a freshman in college.
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It was because of LBJ passing civil rights. That is when the parties flipped.
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They actually didn’t. The Democrat party was, and continues to be, the party of race essentialism. It’s a founding principal of the party and has been since its inception. The thing that has changed is the way in which race essentialism can be deployed for partisan electoral gains. But the deeper racial philosophy of the parties largely remain the same.
This is what Democrats believe in 2021. You could have heard the same from them in 1861.
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It's really complicated and happened very gradually.
First thing to understand is that democrat and republican have only been left of x and right of x for about 40 years. Before that they were more ethnic things if your parents were one you were one regardless of your political orientation. This is why conventions were so heated and why there were more "swing voters" as there were people across the political spectrum in both parties.
The south was uniquely democratic because of slavery/civil war/reconstruction. These voters are now Republican. The switch from democrat to republican in the south happened in the aftermath of the Civil Rights bill and they'd been threatening to leave over civil rights as early as 1948 when Strom Thurmond ran on a seperate ticket. But that was gradual because of what I'm describing in pargraph 1 it wasn't as if a button flipped outside of 1964(in that election it clearly was). A lot of the dixiecrats never changed parties(Robert Bryd) but as that generation died the voters and politicans who replaced them ran as Republicans. In terms of this process while it def started in 1948 it wasn't finished until the 1990s and early 2000s when the older elements of the southern electorate were dead. While the Republicans won the South as early as 1964 the Democrats didn't clearly lose it until after the Clinton administration.
First thing to understand is that democrat and republican have only been left of x and right of x for about 40 years. Before that they were more ethnic things if your parents were one you were one regardless of your political orientation. This is why conventions were so heated and why there were more "swing voters" as there were people across the political spectrum in both parties.
The south was uniquely democratic because of slavery/civil war/reconstruction. These voters are now Republican. The switch from democrat to republican in the south happened in the aftermath of the Civil Rights bill and they'd been threatening to leave over civil rights as early as 1948 when Strom Thurmond ran on a seperate ticket. But that was gradual because of what I'm describing in pargraph 1 it wasn't as if a button flipped outside of 1964(in that election it clearly was). A lot of the dixiecrats never changed parties(Robert Bryd) but as that generation died the voters and politicans who replaced them ran as Republicans. In terms of this process while it def started in 1948 it wasn't finished until the 1990s and early 2000s when the older elements of the southern electorate were dead. While the Republicans won the South as early as 1964 the Democrats didn't clearly lose it until after the Clinton administration.
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That’s just liberal marxist propaganda.
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You should do stand up comedy in your spare timeThey actually didn’t. The Democrat party was, and continues to be, the party of race essentialism. It’s a founding principal of the party and has been since its inception. The thing that has changed is the way in which race essentialism can be deployed for partisan electoral gains. But the deeper racial philosophy of the parties largely remain the same.
This is what Democrats believe in 2021. You could have heard the same from them in 1861.
