A realignment is where all of a sudden constituencies realize that their values are better fit with another political party and things start to change in real time. There's not been a serious realignment in American politics since the Civil Rights act, the mid-1960s. There just hasn't been. Republicans and Democrats have generally had the same constituencies. Republicans have generally been the party of college educated voters, more managerial class, more northeastern Rockefeller, Mitt Romney types. (22:47–22:52)
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Asserts that the last major political realignment in the U.S. occurred in the mid-1960s.
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