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Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery Of The Red Stateblue State Alignment,New
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Where did the socalled Red states and Blue states come from? This book, based in substantial part on archival work, breaks outmoded taboos on the American past and shows what really occurred in the transformation of American politics and why. Jerry F. Hough observes that the historic DemocraticRepublican party alignment was based on the great conflict between the North and the South and on that among the hostile EuropeanAmerican 'races.' Both of these conflicts basically ended in the 1960s and 1970s as EuropeanAmericans became 'whites.' This made a party realignment inevitable, but the politics surrounding the conflicts made it difficult to understand what was happening. As a result, the political elites crafted a highly unnatural and unhealthy red stateblue state alignment. This political reality is not incorporated in the theories of comparative politics and of nationbuilding, Hough explains, because it has been too encased in this mythology. The 1950s through the 1970s was a period of great political turmoil in the United States. The dramatic events of the black revolution, the anti Vietnam demonstrations, and the women's liberation movement caught everyone's attention, but some of the most fundamental changes were less visible. The relations between North and South were highly confrontational, but the period actually led to the end of the historic NorthSouth conflict that had defined the American political system since the Revolution. The two parties have been groping ever since to find a satisfactory new set of coalitions, but they have thus far failed. The new divide, the red stateblue state alignment, produces even narrower and more polarized electoral results in a society that is not fundamentally polarized. What is going on? The author insists that narrow cultural issues are used as electoral platforms in today's politics not because of their inherent importance, but because of party strategies. He explains how we can return to the healthy debating role that a twoparty system is supposed to play in a democratic nation and why this is so crucial. * Jerry F. Hough is the James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke University, where he teaches courses on the US Presidency. As a longtime specialist on comparative political development, especially the Soviet Union, he brings a rare perspective to the study of American political evolution. Expert and student alike will find his revision of the conventional wisdom fresh and thoughtprovoking.
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