The Final Unraveling Of Nixon's Southern Strategy: Article Analysis
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What is a democracy to you? To many of us, it’s just a term that signifies our American government, not understanding that it is our individual freedom and the power to a voice. The political parties in our system are the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green and Constitution parties. Our American Democracy today is being affected due to the current campaign environment and is also affecting American Political Parties. Party realignment in the United States is when the balance of power changes extremely between a country’s political parties. Also, change occurs to the groups of people who vote for them as well. This only happens sometimes, when political parties are created or die out. On the other hand, Party dealignment
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According to the author, Tea Party rebels are in league with a party that plans to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security in order to finance more tax cuts for billionaires and how the democrats should demand that they explain why. Tea Party patriots also noticed that abortion was still legal, gays were getting married and that meant that the GOP failed to make these things illegal. The author also says that Nixon’s southern strategy was an effective electoral ploy, however, it is beginning to look like a deal with the …show more content…
In the beginning of the twentieth century due to literacy test, poll taxes, voter registration requirements and all the things needed to be allowed to vote eliminated voting for blacks, poor whites in the south, and northern immigrant working class. Turnout rates had fallen to half the eligible electorate. (Piven, 2000) Although thanks to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 24th amendment of 1964, which together dismissed poll taxes, literacy tests, and voter-registration obstructions that had kept many poor whites and blacks from voting. The aftermath led to a rise in black and white voter participation, state and local policies were less discriminatory. This transformed the southern system dramatically. (Piven,
According to the author, Tea Party rebels are in league with a party that plans to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security in order to finance more tax cuts for billionaires and how the democrats should demand that they explain why. Tea Party patriots also noticed that abortion was still legal, gays were getting married and that meant that the GOP failed to make these things illegal. The author also says that Nixon’s southern strategy was an effective electoral ploy, however, it is beginning to look like a deal with the …show more content…
In the beginning of the twentieth century due to literacy test, poll taxes, voter registration requirements and all the things needed to be allowed to vote eliminated voting for blacks, poor whites in the south, and northern immigrant working class. Turnout rates had fallen to half the eligible electorate. (Piven, 2000) Although thanks to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 24th amendment of 1964, which together dismissed poll taxes, literacy tests, and voter-registration obstructions that had kept many poor whites and blacks from voting. The aftermath led to a rise in black and white voter participation, state and local policies were less discriminatory. This transformed the southern system dramatically. (Piven,