The Roots of Polarization
The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0226834549 | 248 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0226834549 | 248 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
In the late twentieth century, gay rights, immigration, gun control, and abortion debates all burst onto the political scene, scrambling the parties and polarizing the electorate. Neil A. O’Brian traces the origins of today’s political divide on these issues to the 1960s when Democrats and Republicans split over civil rights. It was this partisan polarization over race, he argues, that subsequently shaped partisan fault lines on other culture war issues that persist to this day.