Analyze the demographic and political realignment during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Good students will begin with the third-party candidacy of George Wallace
What will be an ideal response?
They will point out that Wallace and his popularity represented a conservative shift in American politics. The 1968 presidential election, in which George Wallace won nearly 10 million votes, was a turning point in American politics. By 1972, the Wallace issues in that election, such as law and order and school busing, had been adopted by Nixon and the Republican Party as part of a southern strategy. Better students will add that in addition to locking up the once solidly Democratic South, the Republicans were looking to the suburbs, working-class neighborhoods, and the rest of the geographical Sunbelt for building their base of support among those who opposed antiwar protesters, welfare recipients, and civil rights advocates. The result was a Nixon landslide in 1972, which initiated an era of Republican domination of the White House as well as a permanent shift in the nation's political alignment.
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