POLS 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7 in Party Politics in America: Fifth Party System, Fourth Party System, William Jennings Bryan
6 Feb 2020
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America parties are distinguished by the types of groups that support them: coalition: the economic, social or other groups that favor a party"s candidates/positions at a particular time. Once a group is in a party"s coalition, its interests influence the party"s issue positions. Great and enduring changes in parties" coalitions are called party realignments. First party system (1801-1828) was class based and between: Second party system (1829-1860) also class based, emerged when jeffersonian (now. Democratic-republicans) couldn"t contain conflicts in the growing nation and split in two: democrats (opposed strong national government; southern and western frontier farmers. & urban workers : whigs (elitist commercial faction of wealthy individuals, democrats dominated, growing as the franchise expanded. Immigrants into urban areas joined both parties, while blacks were kept from voting in the south. New deal coalition: less privileged and minorities (low income people, industrial workers, poor farmers, catholics, jews and blacks), as well as southern democrats where loyalty was ingrained.
