All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "famil…

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