The Non-Emergent Democratic Majority?
The realignment of America's political parties wasn't quite what was hoped.
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The realignment of America's political parties wasn't quite what was hoped.
Matthew Karp teaches at Princeton University and the author of This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy.
Today the march of class dealignment feels like an inexorable fact of American political life. But is it?
Former Gov. Scott Walker said Democrats wanted to expand slavery, while Republicans didn't. Is that true?
Matthew Karp, a history professor at Princeton, wrote an interesting thread on what has happened to his academic discipline over the past few years. Interesting and unsurprisingly very troubling....