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Article: The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- February 13, 1995
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OVER the last three decades some of the most fundamental and long-standing assumptions of American politics have largely been inverted. From our national beginnings to the late 1960s, the Democratic Party represented such overlapping, yet mutually antipathetic, communities as the poor, the less educated, subsistence farmers, Southerners, Catholics, immigrants, and the inhabitants of large cities. Ranged on the other side, in its successively Federalist, Whig and Republican manifestations, were the educated middle-class reformers who are today's characteristic urban white Democrats, along with educated and professional people in general and Protestants in every region ...