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  title info:
    title: Racial realignment
    sub title: the transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965
  name:
    name part: Schickler, Eric
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Transforming American liberalism. Race : the early new deal's blind spot -- Transforming liberalism, 1933-1940 -- Liberalism transformed : the early civil rights movement and the "liberal lobby" -- Realignment from below : voters and midlevel party actors. Civil rights and new deal liberalism in the mass public -- The African American realignment 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.
  note: Eric Schickler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Democratic Party (U.S.)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Liberalism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Civil rights
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Racism
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
  classification: JC574.2.U6 S35 2016
  classification: 320.51/309730904
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Princeton studies in American politics
  identifier: 9780691153872 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0691153876 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9780691153889 (softcover)
  identifier: 0691153884 (softcover)
  identifier: 2015048241
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160201
    record change date: 20171016141256.0
    record identifier: in00003884795