political realignment
Partisan map redrawn
Political realignment is a lasting shift in the coalition of voters, interest groups, or regions that support a political party.
Major realignments reshape the political landscape for a generation or more: The New Deal created a political realignment that lasted decades.
The term often describes elections that signal a fundamental change in party loyalties rather than a temporary swing.
- swing statesElectorally unpredictable regions
- blue wallPolice code of silence
- red waveConservative electoral dominance
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
- racial demographicsPopulation data by ancestry
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- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, sectionalism, states' rights, Fugitive Slave Act
- party politicsparty, parties, party member, party system, party affiliation
- Postwar EuropeBerlin Wall, Marshall Plan, Iron Curtain, iron curtain, NATO
- Secessionsecession, disunion, Confederate States, Confederacy, states' rights
- Free Soilantislavery
political realignmentprotest vote
Ballot expressing political dissatisfaction
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