Tieteobserver
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« on: April 20, 2014, 06:48:45 PM » |
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Cleveland marked the last time when the Democratic ticket was reliably right-wing at the national level. After that it was, nationally speaking, at most as far to the right as the GOP.
However, up until the 1960s, both parties polarized much more along ethnic and regional lines than ideological ones. Basically, Northeastern WASPs were as Republican as one can be, whilst Southern WASPery and the ethnic Whites in the Northeast were heavily Democratic.
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