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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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