One Example of Realignment Was When

question 47

Multiple Choice

One example of realignment was when

• A) anti-slavery Republicans left to join the Democratic Party before the Civil War.
• B) working-class voters abandoned the Republican Party in 1896 due to the Republicans' populist politics.
• C) the New Deal Democratic Coalition brought African Americans and ardent segregationists into the same party in 1932.
• D) cultural conservatives abandoned the Republicans in 1968, especially in the South.
• E) evangelical Christians abandoned the Republican Party and voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976.

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