Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the Peoples Party
By (Author) Mark Stricherz
Encounter Books,USA
Encounter Books,USA
25th October 2007
United States
General
Non Fiction
324.2736
Hardback
350
Width 166mm, Height 239mm
6293g
Why the Democrats are Blue argues that secular, educated elites, using a commission created at the 1968 convention in Chicago and later chaired by Senator George McGovern, took the Democratic Party away from working class and religious Democrats. This quiet revolution helps explain why six of the last nine Democratic presidential candidates have lost.