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This 3 page paper explores the question of why, after fifty years of the Democratic Party predominating after the Great Depression, did the American voter transition towards conservatism and the Republican Party in the 1980s. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the economic depths to which the Great Depression took many Americans. They clamored for change and they got it with Franklin D. Roosevelts "New Deal". As time has progressed,
however, the fear that had been instilled in most voters declined. By the 1980s conservatism was on the rise. American voters moved away from Democrat candidates in favor
of Republicans offering them what, in effect, was yet another "new deal". That deal was a move forward under the impetus of the capitalistic premises that had already made
this country so great. In our earliest history, political parties were comprised of the so-called elite members of society. The wealthy and the influential in effect exercised their wealth
and influentiality through the collective voice of the political party. By doing so they managed to exert tremendous pressure on the growth and direction that our country would take.
Over time, however, the common citizen began to have more voice in political parties. Through a process of realignment and dealignment both the Republican Party and the Democrat
Party underwent many internal changes and, in particular, changes in the regional bases of support they enjoyed. The Democrats became stereotyped as the party of minorities and liberals and
the Republicans as the predominantly white Christian Right. At the same time campaigns became candidate-centered. The years spanning 1929 to 1941, of course, were some of the
hardest ever endured in the United States. This was the time of the Great Depression. The Great Depression seemed to appear almost overnight. As Smiley (2003) observes,
in the years preceding the Great Depression, "the United States had achieved a higher degree of comfort than had ever existed anywhere on earth" (3). Although this country had
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