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4. It was almost true. That was beginning of the great racial realignment

Tue Sep 10, 2019, 09:11 PM

Sep 2019

Nixon won big in 1972 because the great party realignment was going full bore. The racists were leaving the Dem party and moving to the GOP, and educated progressive white people plus minorities were NOT a majority then.
That realignment killed the Democratic Party 1972-1992 and Carter basically won only because (a) Nixon was a criminal and (b) Ford pardoned him. And Clinton governed close to the center and courted Reagan Republicans. Only in 2008 did we have a real Democrat as president.

We ARE a majority now. I’d be happy to see the GOP effectively dead for 35 years. Let’s do it.

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So they say,"No More Republican Party?"How about 1972? "No More Democratic Party", they said [View all] Stuart G Sep 2019 OP

No More Republican Party CountAllVotes Sep 2019 #1

Yes, "they were wrong"...and .."I have been wrong a whole lot too." Stuart G Sep 2019 #2

Political parties evolve, they may even change their name, they don't die. Thomas Hurt Sep 2019 #3

Yes, I agree with you. There are those on the left, center and right..has been that way for a while Stuart G Sep 2019 #6

It was almost true. That was beginning of the great racial realignment sharedvalues Sep 2019 #4

Ps thank you for working for McGovern! sharedvalues Sep 2019 #5

You're welcome calguy Sep 2019 #7

You were in the right backing McGovern sharedvalues Sep 2019 #8