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The Grand Old Party´s misery

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The 2016 presidential election has shown that the Republican Party is at a crossroads. While a Trump candidacy took even the most seasoned political analysts by surprise, the rise of racially charged anti-elitism within the Grand Old Party has been an ongoing project for the last half a century, initiated and deliberately driven by its leaders and strategists who identified the former Confederacy as the foundation for conservative majorities. This book charts the path of the party´s ever increasing Southernization and simultaneous Evangelicalization while providing a detailed assessment of the GOP´s future chances of fashioning majorities in a country that is undergoing momentous demographic changes.

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Adorf, Philipp
Dr Philipp Adorf is a research asssistant at Bonn University.

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