[PDF] To All Loyal Democrats eBook

Author : Ismail K. White
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691199515

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"Over the last half century, there has been a marked increase in ideological conservatism among African Americans, with nearly 50% of black Americans describing themselves as conservative in the 2000s, as compared to 10% in the 1970s. Support for redistributive initiatives has likewise declined. And yet, even as black Americans shift rightward on ideological and issue positions, Democratic Party identification has stayed remarkable steady, holding at 80% to 90%. It is this puzzle that White and Laird look to address in this new book: Why has ideological change failed to push black Americans into the Republican party? Most explanations for homogeneity have focused on individual dispositions, including ideology and group identity. White and Laird acknowledge that these are important, but point out that such explanations fail to account for continued political unity even in the face of individual ideological change and of individual incentives to defect from this common group behavior. The authors offer instead, or in addition, a behavioral explanation, arguing that black Americans maintain political unity through the establishment and enforcement of well-defined group expectations of black political behavior through a process they term racialized social constraint. The authors explain how black political norms came about, and what these norms are, then show (with the help of survey data and lab-in-field experiments) how such norms are enforced, and where this enforcement happens (through a focus on black institutions). They conclude by exploring the implications of the theory for electoral strategy, as well as explaining how this framework can be used to understand other voter communities"--

Author : Wayne Perryman
Publisher : Hara Publishing Group
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :

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Unfounded Loyalty offers a profound look at the influences that have shaped the cultural development of modern Black America. The book re-examines historic assumptions about the role of Christianity and the Democratic Party as supporters of civil-rights and black voters. In an investigative style, Perryman reveals shocking events and deceptions which are part of America's untold history. Unfounded Loyalty is a compelling, well researched and documented historical study.

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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Campaign literature, 1862
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An ostensibly "War Democrat" election appeal to fellow Democrats, in favor of the Republican party. "We repudiate, as Democrats, those who still seek a covert alliance with the South; who denounce, as heresy, the 'coercion' which alone can vindicate the supremacy of the Government; ... who declare that Pennsylvania should 'go with the South;' ... who obstruct every measure adopted for the suppression of the rebellion; who seek to sanctify Slavery, until they evidently prefer disunion with Slavery, to Union without Slavery ... As Democrats we must belong, as we ever have done, to the party of the country. That party is no longer the one which has hitherto been our pride."

Author : Thomas B. Reston
Publisher : All Points Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1250176050

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A brief history of the Democratic Party and the national ideals it has abandoned over time, thus losing its working class base—and its soul.

Author : Amy Sullivan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 141655419X

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As late as the 1960s, religion was a decidedly nonpartisan affair in the United States. In the past forty years, however, despite abundant evidence that Americans care about their candidates' personal faith, Democrats have beat a retreat in the competition for religious voters and the discussion of morality, effectively ceding religion to the Republicans. Elections show that voters have gotten the message: Democrats are on the wrong side of the God gap. With unprecedented access to politicians, campaign advisers, and religious leaders, Amy Sullivan skillfully traces the Democratic Party's fall from grace among religious voters, showing how the party lost its primacy -- and maybe its soul -- in the process. It's a story that begins with the party's ineffectual response to the rise of the religious right and culminates with John Kerry's defeat in the 2004 presidential election. Sullivan documents key turning points along the way, such as the party's alienation of Catholics on the abortion issue and its failure to emulate Bill Clinton's success at reaching religious voters. She demonstrates that there was nothing inevitable about the defection of values voters to the GOP and the emergence of the God gap: it was not just a Republican achievement but the Democrats' failure to embrace their own faith and engage religious Americans on social issues. Sullivan's story has a hopeful ending. She takes readers behind the scenes of the Democrats' recent religious turnaround. She offers insight into the ways Democrats have reoriented their campaigns to appeal to religious voters -- including their successes at framing the abortion issue in less-divisive terms and at finding common ground with evangelical leaders and communities. Timely, informative, and immensely thought-provoking, The Party Faithful is a tough and revealing analysis of the Democratic Party's relationship to religion and an essential primer for evaluating the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.

Author : John B. Judis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0743254783

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ONE 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.