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
instanceOf political coalition
voting bloc
appliesToJurisdiction United States federal politics
basedOn support for federal economic intervention
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
long-term Democratic control of the U.S. Senate
country United States
dissolvedDueTo civil rights conflicts
cultural and racial polarization in the 1960s
rise of the Republican Southern Strategy
white Southern realignment to the Republican Party
dominantInPeriod mid-20th century
endTime early 1970s
late 1960s
hasEffect realignment of the American party system in the 1930s
hasPart African American voters
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
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
ideology American liberalism
New Deal liberalism
influenced Great Society
postwar Democratic Party platform
opposedBy Republican Party
conservative coalition in Congress
significantEvent 1936 United States presidential election
1940 United States presidential election
1944 United States presidential election
1948 United States presidential election
election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932
startTime 1932
supported Democratic Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal


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