Niles Caulder
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« on: September 04, 2004, 08:08:34 PM » |
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I'm not so sure it's the case that the nation became all that polarized as much as it's the Political Parties that started catering to the nation's polarity.
I think we have to give credit to Nixon and his realignment of the national dialogue along (pre-existing) ideological divides at a time when the Democratic Party had failed to sustain the support needed to stay in power.
Granted this was on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam, so the argument that these were 'polarizing' to the American electorate and the Two-Party system responded is a good way of looking at it, too.
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