The Emerging Democratic MajorityONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conservative era. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority, became an indispensable guide for all those attempting to understand political change through the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the country in Republican hands, The Emerging Democratic Majority is the indispensable guide to this era. In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at Republican demands to privatize social security, ban abortion, and cut back environmental regulations. As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives, the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an essential volume for all those discontented with their narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order. |
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... liberal Democrat who had rented the Republican label because he stood a better chance of winning the Republican than the Democratic primary. When parties win elections like this, it doesn't always portend significant long-term changes ...
... liberal Democrat who had rented the Republican label because he stood a better chance of winning the Republican than the Democratic primary. When parties win elections like this, it doesn't always portend significant long-term changes ...
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... liberal Democrats and New Left movements had gone in the late sixties and the seventies. The civil rights movement had become identified with ghetto riots and busing; feminism with bra burners and lesbians; the antiwar movement with ...
... liberal Democrats and New Left movements had gone in the late sixties and the seventies. The civil rights movement had become identified with ghetto riots and busing; feminism with bra burners and lesbians; the antiwar movement with ...
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... liberal Democrats and New Left movements of the 1 970s that the conservative Republicans supplanted. As columnist E. J. Dionne first noted, the new Democrats closely resemble the progressive Republicans who dominated American politics ...
... liberal Democrats and New Left movements of the 1 970s that the conservative Republicans supplanted. As columnist E. J. Dionne first noted, the new Democrats closely resemble the progressive Republicans who dominated American politics ...
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... liberal values and concerns with the quality of life permeate the population, including the white working class. The result is widespread and growing support for the Democrats' progressive centrism. In the past, cities like Chicago ...
... liberal values and concerns with the quality of life permeate the population, including the white working class. The result is widespread and growing support for the Democrats' progressive centrism. In the past, cities like Chicago ...
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... liberal reform, challenged the prevailing consensus; Barry Goldwater did so in 1964; and George McGovern in 1972. The opposition gets clobbered, but it does surprisingly well among constituencies that would become the heart of a new ...
... liberal reform, challenged the prevailing consensus; Barry Goldwater did so in 1964; and George McGovern in 1972. The opposition gets clobbered, but it does surprisingly well among constituencies that would become the heart of a new ...
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