The Emerging Democratic Majority

The Emerging Democratic Majority is a 2002 book by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira which argued that certain demographic and social changes in the United States at the turn of the 21st century were creating a political landscape that favored the Democratic Party.[1][2] The book's thesis was later disavowed by both of its writers with differing explanations.

The book's central argument is that the Democratic Party would become dominant due to adherence to "a progressive centrism," an ideology that Teixeira later in November 2024 said was maintained by the party from the presidency of Bill Clinton to the beginning of Barack Obama's second term, and was discarded thereafter, leading to defeat in the presidential elections of 2016 and 2024.[3]

In 2015, in an essay The Emerging Republican Advantage,[4] Judis recanted his views in the book and argued that the long term Democratic majority had given way to an "unstable equilibrium" between the parties. He wrote that the long term Democratic Majority was gone as Hispanics and Asians were considerably less Democratic than he assumed and that white working class voters were abandoning the Democratic party.[5]

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References

  1. ^ "Why the era of the 'Emerging Democratic Majority' is collapsing". Politico. 17 November 2023. Archived from the original on November 9, 2024. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  2. ^ Karp, Matthew (February 19, 2024). "What Happened to the Democratic Majority?". The Nation.
  3. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (November 8, 2024). "A Democrat Ponders a 'Thumping Rebuke'". The Wall Street Journal.
  4. ^ "The Emerging Republican Advantage". National Journal. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  5. ^ Barone, Michael (2015-02-03). "Co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority recants". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 2019-05-02.


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