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 during the 2004 election, a project to create instructional materials that was supported by the APSA, ICPSR, and SETUPS.

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The New Arrangement Realignment

The 1930s New Arrangement realignment reshaped the party framework. The Great Depression sparked a change in the party system that elevated the Democrats from a minority to a majority on a national scale. The working class as well as a variety of ethnic and minority groups that already had a strong presence in the South contributed to the New Deal Democratic coalition that brought Franklin D. Roosevelt to power and established the Democratic Party as the party in power in Congress. The party's economic liberalism served as the foundation for its appeal to blue-collar workers, low-income individuals, and recent immigrants (primarily Catholics and Jews from southern and eastern Europe). Roosevelt and the Democrats advocated for programs that would benefit disadvantaged groups and supported federal government efforts to combat the Depression. This expansion of government intervention in the economy and the creation of a variety of social welfare programs were criticized by Republicans, who were more popular with the middle class, business groups, and northern white Protestants. By the last part of the 1930s, the lines between the two gatherings were obviously drawn, both in philosophical and financial terms (Ladd and Hadley 1978, 31-87).

Even though the New Deal coalition began to disintegrate in the 1960s, the realignment's impact has persisted to the present day, albeit in a diminished and modified form. There are still many party pictures from decades ago. Democrats are still regarded as the party that supports expanding government, increasing spending on domestic programs, and providing assistance to those with lower incomes. Conservatives keep on being seen as leaning toward restricted government, less spending on homegrown projects, and less limitations on business undertakings. Democrats are regarded as the party of the poor and working class. Republicans are seen as the party of the wealthy and businesspeople. Images of this kind are not baseless. They show that the parties still have fundamental differences.