US Party Realignment History

For a very long time, the Democrats were several different parties loosely united under one. As AOC put it "In any other country Biden and I would be in different parties". They were the "Big Tent Party".Now it's the Republicans whose divisions are becoming visible.

It's the Democratic party, there is no such thing as the democrat party.I take it you're not at all familiar with Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, and it's embrace of the Dixiecrats, or actually quite a lot of relevant American political historyhttps://www.thenation.com/article/archive&#x

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Republican and Democrat left/right leaning used to be swapped though https://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-part...

The Democrats used to own the south, and the Republicans freed the slaves. The two parties traded constituents since then. They might do so again. Or one of them might implode---like the earlier antagonist of the Democrats did before the Republicans came around.

True, the make-up and priorities of both Republicans and Democrats have changed a few times over the years.I would say that in this case, it's a party aligning to an individual far more than it has ever been in the past. Racist Southern Democrats didn't become Republicans because they were enamored with a Republican leader, they changed parties because they found themselves misaligned with the Democratic Party's pivot to civil rights.I wholeheartedly agree that a parliamenta

Before the Democratic Party and Republican Party swapped platforms in the 60s and 70s, the super racists voted Democrat.

History - while America has always been governed primarily by two parties, that set of two has changed a couple of times.Originally, it was the Whigs and the Democratic Republicans. In the mid-1800s, the Republicans were a new party, and Lincoln wound up being the first president from that party.Interesting to note that the guy who freed the slaves was a Republican, while it was the Democrats who tried to maintain slavery. During the Civil Rights movement, the parties got confused about wh

The ideological "sort" of conservatives into the Republican party and liberals into the Democratic party is a recent phenomenon. As recently as the late 1970s, the Republican party wasn't even clear on its stance on abortion. The sort was set in motion after Reagan was elected and wasn't really completed until after the Contract With America years.

Don't know why you're being downvoted. You're absolutely correct. The Democratic and Republican parties had polar opposite platforms from their present ones until the Southern Strategy beginning in the late 1960s.