New Deal coalition
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The New Deal coalition was a dominant mid-20th-century U.S. political alliance of urban workers, ethnic minorities, Southern whites, and other groups that reliably supported the Democratic Party and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
political coalition
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voting bloc → |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States federal politics
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| basedOn |
support for federal economic intervention
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support for labor rights → support for regulation of business → support for social welfare programs → |
| causeOf |
long-term Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives
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long-term Democratic control of the U.S. Senate → |
| country |
United States
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| dissolvedDueTo |
civil rights conflicts
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cultural and racial polarization in the 1960s → rise of the Republican Southern Strategy → white Southern realignment to the Republican Party → |
| dominantInPeriod |
mid-20th century
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| endTime |
early 1970s
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late 1960s → |
| hasEffect |
realignment of the American party system in the 1930s
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| hasPart |
African American voters
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Catholic voters → Jewish voters → Northern liberals → Southern whites → Western progressives → big city political machines → ethnic minorities in the United States → farmers → intellectuals → labor unions → liberal professionals → urban workers → white ethnic voters → |
| helpedElect |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Harry S. Truman → John F. Kennedy → Lyndon B. Johnson → |
| ideology |
American liberalism
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New Deal liberalism → |
| influenced |
Great Society
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postwar Democratic Party platform → |
| opposedBy |
Republican Party
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conservative coalition in Congress → |
| significantEvent |
1936 United States presidential election
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1940 United States presidential election → 1944 United States presidential election → 1948 United States presidential election → election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 → |
| startTime |
1932
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| supported |
Democratic Party
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Franklin D. Roosevelt → New Deal → |
Referenced by (5)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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1936 United States presidential election
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associatedWith |
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Fifth Party System in United States politics
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characterizedBy |
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New Deal coalition
("New Deal liberalism")
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ideology |
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Fifth Party System in United States politics
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keyCoalition |
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Walter Reuther
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movement |