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Odin2005

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3. The switch started with William Jennings Bryan and the Populists.

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 11:15 PM

Jan 2012

This caused many Northerners to become Democrats.

Then FDR cemented the Democratic Party as the party of labor and poor farmers in the North, absorbing Republican Progressives.

Then the Civil Rights Movement caused African-Americans to become solidly Democratic while white Southerners bolted to the Republicans.

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I find it ironic that both parties are the opposite of what they were in 1860. [View all] Odin2005 Jan 2012 OP

Richard Nixon, the gift that keeps on giving. Skidmore Jan 2012 #1

Oh this started well before Nixon... by about a hundred years actually nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #2

The switch started with William Jennings Bryan and the Populists. Odin2005 Jan 2012 #3

Yup the early part of the 20th century is when it became way too obvious nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #4