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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... white middle- class and working-class Democrats, many of them Protestant evangelicals, who were alienated by their ... voters in the North and the West who became disillusioned with the party's free-market economics and from upscale suburban ...
... white middle- class and working-class Democrats, many of them Protestant evangelicals, who were alienated by their ... voters in the North and the West who became disillusioned with the party's free-market economics and from upscale suburban ...
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... election included some white working-class Reagan and Bush Democrats, but it also featured three important groups of voters that were becoming a larger and more powerful part of the electorate. Professionals, who included teachers ...
... election included some white working-class Reagan and Bush Democrats, but it also featured three important groups of voters that were becoming a larger and more powerful part of the electorate. Professionals, who included teachers ...
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... white working-class voters from the Democratic ticket. These voters had once been the heart of the New Deal coalition, but in the 1980 and 1984 elections, Reagan averaged 61 percent support among them.8 In some working-class areas, race ...
... white working-class voters from the Democratic ticket. These voters had once been the heart of the New Deal coalition, but in the 1980 and 1984 elections, Reagan averaged 61 percent support among them.8 In some working-class areas, race ...
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... racial integration; they contained the bulk of the nations Protestant ... white Southern voters in 1980 against a Southern candidate and 71 percent in ... working-class Democrats outside the Deep South. Reagan also adopted the ...
... racial integration; they contained the bulk of the nations Protestant ... white Southern voters in 1980 against a Southern candidate and 71 percent in ... working-class Democrats outside the Deep South. Reagan also adopted the ...
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