TY - BOOK AU - Schickler,Eric TI - Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965 T2 - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives SN - 9780691153872 AV - JC574.2.U6 S35 2018 U1 - 320.51309730904 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - History KW - 20th century KW - United States KW - Liberalism KW - Racism KW - Political aspects KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights KW - bisacsh KW - African American movement KW - African American population KW - African American voters KW - Al Smith KW - American politics KW - Congress of Industrial Organizations KW - Congress KW - Democratic Party KW - Democratic partisanship KW - Democrats KW - Franklin D. Roosevelt KW - House of Representatives KW - Jewish population KW - New Deal liberalism KW - New Deal KW - Republican partisanship KW - Republicans KW - World War II KW - civil realignment KW - civil rights activists KW - civil rights bills KW - civil rights initiatives KW - civil rights realignment KW - civil rights support KW - civil rights KW - coalitional bargains KW - conservatives KW - discrimination KW - economic conservatism KW - economic liberalism KW - fair employment KW - liberal civil rights KW - liberal coalition KW - liberal states KW - liberalism KW - liberals KW - national Democratic Party KW - national GOP KW - national party elites KW - national party leaders KW - national platforms KW - party faction KW - party politics KW - party theory KW - political transformations KW - pro-civil rights KW - race KW - racial conservatism KW - racial liberalism KW - racial policy conservatism KW - racial politics KW - state Democratic parties KW - state Republican parties KW - state parties KW - union density KW - urban liberals KW - urbanization N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Part 1. Transforming American Liberalism --; Chapter 2. Race --; Chapter 3. Transforming Liberalism, 1933-1940 --; Chapter 4. Liberalism Transformed --; Part 2. Realignment From Below: Voters And Midlevel Party Actors --; Chapter 5. Civil Rights and New Deal Liberalism in the Mass Public --; Chapter 6. The African American Realignment and New Deal Liberalism --; Chapter 7. State Parties and the Civil Rights Realignment --; Chapter 8. Beyond the Roll Call --; Part 3. The National Parties Respond --; Chapter 9. Facing A Changing Party --; Chapter 10. Lincoln's Party No More --; Chapter 11. Conclusions --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites-such as Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater-set in motion a dramatic and sudden reshuffling of party positioning on racial issues during the 1960s. Racial Realignment instead argues that top party leaders were actually among the last to move, and that their choices were dictated by changes that had already occurred beneath them. Drawing upon rich data sources and original historical research, Eric Schickler shows that the two parties' transformation on civil rights took place gradually over decades.Schickler reveals that Democratic partisanship, economic liberalism, and support for civil rights had crystallized in public opinion, state parties, and Congress by the mid-1940s. This trend was propelled forward by the incorporation of African Americans and the pro-civil-rights Congress of Industrial Organizations into the Democratic coalition. Meanwhile, Republican partisanship became aligned with economic and racial conservatism. Scrambling to maintain existing power bases, national party elites refused to acknowledge these changes for as long as they could, but the civil rights movement finally forced them to choose where their respective parties would stand.Presenting original ideas about political change, Racial Realignment sheds new light on twentieth and twenty-first century racial politics UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400880973?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400880973 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400880973.jpg ER -