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AP U.S. Government: Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Mass Media Drill 2, Problem 4. Of the following, what is the most recent major political realignment?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by political realignment When members of congress
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visit a chiropractor right of the following What's the most
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recent major political realignment in here the potential answers Skimming
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skimming Well if we know one thing about american politics
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it's that things tend to stay exactly the same Oh
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wait no We mean the exact opposite political realignments occur
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when traditional supporters of one party decide to switch sides
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throwing the whole system a little off balance That was
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the most recent major political realignment be african americans shifting
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from republican to democratic huh African americans shifted largely from
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republican red two democratic blue during the civil rights era
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especially once lbj when the vote on the voting rights
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act in nineteen sixty four so he might not be
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all weaken b Could the most recent major political realignment
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have been seat urban working class and rural voters shifting
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to the democratic party huh Well that happened during fdr
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is new deal coalition in the nineteen thirties which brought
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together disparate interests interested in reclaiming an american interested in
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the general interest so we can cross off See did
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the most recent major political realignment occur when deep new
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european immigrants became democratic voters Well gosh we just seem
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to be going further and further back in time since
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european immigrants join the democratic party during the eighteen nineties
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and early nineteen hundred that we can ditch d in
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the old country What about e supporters of a strong
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central government joining the wig party Well once the federalist
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fell apart after the war of eighteen twelve remaining supporters
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joined forces with the wig hoping toe we the strong
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central government out of the strands that remain so if
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e seems particularly ancient well that means the most recent
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political realignment occurred when a the south shifted from democratic
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who republicans on there we go The rightward shift of
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the south a result of the republican southern strategy began
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under richard nixon in the late nineteen sixties is a
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response to the civil rights movement which featured the shift
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of black voters to the democratic party So option a
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is the correct answer We just need to be sure
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that if we're ever invited to a realignment party i
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think the chiropractor in charge is licensed to practice and 00:02:26.385 --> [endTime] has gentle hands
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