Chasing the Wrong Puzzle: Working Class Whites and the Republican Party

• In Event: Party Factions, Alignment, and Realignment

Brief Overview

The narrrative of American politics is that Democrats lost the white working class in the 1960s or 1980s. This paper presents data indicating that Democrats began to lose white working class voters in the 1940s.

Author

• Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University