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050 00 $aJC574.2.U6$bS35 2016
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100 1 $aSchickler, Eric,$d1969-$eauthor.
245 10 $aRacial realignment :$bthe transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965 /$cEric Schickler.
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2016]
300 $axii, 359 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
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490 1 $aPrinceton studies in American politics. Historical, international, and comparative perspectives
520 $a"Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites--such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater--set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on racial issues during the 1960s. Racial Realignment instead argues that top party leaders were actually among the last to move, and that their choices were dictated by changes that had already occurred beneath them. Drawing upon rich data sources and original historical research, Eric Schickler shows that the two parties' transformation on civil rights took place gradually over decades.Schickler reveals that Democratic partisanship, economic liberalism, and support for civil rights had crystallized in public opinion, state parties, and Congress by the mid-1940s. This trend was propelled forward by the incorporation of African Americans and the pro-civil-rights Congress of Industrial Organizations into the Democratic coalition. Meanwhile, Republican partisanship became aligned with economic and racial conservatism. Scrambling to maintain existing power bases, national party elites refused to acknowledge these changes for as long as they could, but the civil rights movement finally forced them to choose where their respective parties would stand. Presenting original ideas about political change, Racial Realignment sheds new light on twentieth and twenty-first century racial politics"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTransforming American liberalism. Race : the early new deal's blind spot -- Transforming liberalism, 1933-1940 -- Liberalism transformed : the early civil rights movement and the "lliberal lobby" -- Realignment from below : voters and midlevel party actors. Civil rights and new deal liberalism in the mass public -- The African American reallignment and new deal liberalism -- State parties and the civil rights realignment -- Beyond the roll call : the congressional realignment -- The national parties respond. Facing a changing party : democratic elites and civil rights -- Lincoln's party no more : the transformation of the GOP.
610 20 $aDemocratic Party (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLiberalism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century.
830 0 $aPrinceton studies in American politics.
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