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Historical U.S. political party "realignments"?

Wikipedia's article on the US political parties has a fairly good section on history and the changing party systems. I don't see a need to add to that or to the other answers here. However, I will ...
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Historical U.S. political party "realignments"?

I would wager that Kennedy was trying to refer to the "Party Systems" that are used by political scientists & historians in order to describe the regional party alignments in various ...
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Historical U.S. political party "realignments"?

Theoretical Context Duverger's law states that subject to certain conditions, a political system with single member district plurality vote candidate elections naturally tends towards having two, ...
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