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    In the years 1945 to 1974, the Democratic party was weakened by internal divisions over civil rights, alienating southern white voters who switched to support Republican candidates for a generation. The party was also divided between liberals and conservatives over foreign policy approaches towards issues like the Korean War and communism, allowing Republican candidates like Nixon to capitalize on these splits within the Democratic party. Lyndon Johnson relied on Republican support to pass his Great Society domestic agenda due to lack of support from southern Democrats.

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    In the years 1945 to 1974, the Democratic party was weakened by internal divisions over civil rights, alienating southern white voters who switched to support Republican candidates for a generation. The party was also divided between liberals and conservatives over foreign policy approaches towards issues like the Korean War and communism, allowing Republican candidates like Nixon to capitalize on these splits within the Democratic party. Lyndon Johnson relied on Republican support to pass his Great Society domestic agenda due to lack of support from southern Democrats.

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    In The Year 1945 To 1974 The Democratic Party Was Mortally Weakened by Its Internal Divisions

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    In the years 1945 to 1974, the Democratic party was weakened by internal divisions over civil rights, alienating southern white voters who switched to support Republican candidates for a generation. The party was also divided between liberals and conservatives over foreign policy approaches towards issues like the Korean War and communism, allowing Republican candidates like Nixon to capitalize on these splits within the Democratic party. Lyndon Johnson relied on Republican support to pass his Great Society domestic agenda due to lack of support from southern Democrats.

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    In the year 1945 to 1974 the democratic party was mortally weakened by its internal

    divisions.

    Civil rights
    Alienating southern whites
    Lose the southern vote for a generation - richard russell - LbJ
    Truman failure to pass substantial legislation due to opposition within party
    Liberal vs conservatives democratic party divided lbj able to utilise the republican party to
    push vote through legislations - weakened but not mortally
    Wallace replaced by Truman by Fdr to appease southern vote
    Foreign policy failure
    Korea
    LBJ

    Eisenhower successes

    Doves V warhawks

    Jfk LBJ - used republican party


    Counter - Nixon

    Communism
    Wallace - under fire from conservative democrats
    1950 McCarthy claims against democrats - red scare internal tension
    Attack truman for benign too soft on communism
    1952 election goes republican stevenson fails to unify the democratic party in this election
    Nixon
    Mccarthyism

    Paragraph 3 - Domestic policy great society


    JFK, Northern liberal who couldn't garner support from southern democrats
    Catholic too
    Reliance upon liberal republicans to pass legislative programme in the senate

    LBJ needs republicans to pass swathes of legislation a part of great society programme

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