POLS 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter NA: After Trump: Southern Strategy, Gerrymandering

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 125
• Professor: Deborah Lynn Guber

Document Summary

After trump: how authoritarian voters will change american politics, They are the american authoritarians (1) they are too powerful for the party to manage and too significant to ignore. The gop"s 2012 postmortem found that if they wanted to be viable, they had to improve support among minorities and women. The authoritarian"s preferences are a problem for the gop because their candidates can likely win in party primaries, but won"t be competitive in general elections. The two factions want different policies and different politics. Partisan sorting in the last few years have given the authoritarians a critical mass within the party, but not the general populace: for decades authoritarians were divided between parties and too diffused to influence either. In the mid-1960s the gop remade itself into the party of law and order, and embraced a position of anti-civil rights (southern strategy)