GOVT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Pew Research Center, Socalled
24 Jun 2016
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History repeats itself: a narration of american polarization. The last few years have gone by with the media screaming of bipartisanship and gridlock. This issue is central to american political life, yet very little has been done in terms of finding the root causes and searching out solutions for compromise and progress. If one is to look back at recent history, certain tendencies and patterns have led to today"s political society. It has been found by political scientists that the divergence of parties was catalyzed in the 1970"s, when civil and social rights were heavily debated and legislation was rapidly moving in a more liberal direction. These issues allowed for members of congress to form a deeply split dichotomy of elite democrats and. Over time, this trickled down to the citizens, who lost the middle ground were forced to fit into an uncompromising situation.
