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'''Reagan Democrats''' were [[Democrat]]s who voted for [[Ronald Reagan]] in the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections. Most were working men and women who had come to feel that the Democratic party was no longer championing them, but favored blacks instead. They blamed the then-incumbent Democrat [[Jimmy Carter]] for the economic [[recession]] and foreign policy humiliations of the late 1970s.
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'''Reagan Democrat''' is a term coined by political pollsters to indicate those [[Democrat]]s who voted for [[Ronald Reagan]] in the 1980 and 1984 Presidential Elections. Most Reagan Democrats were found to be middle-class working men and women from the Northeast primarily who had come to feel that the Democratic party wasn't championing middle-class causes at the time, and also blamed President [[Jimmy Carter]] for the economic [[recession]] of the late 1970s.
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==See also==
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*[[Obamacan]]
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*[[Blue Dog Democrat]]
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*[[Conservative Democrat]]
  
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Latest revision as of 13:28, February 12, 2023

Reagan Democrats were Democrats who voted for Ronald Reagan in the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections. Most were working men and women who had come to feel that the Democratic party was no longer championing them, but favored blacks instead. They blamed the then-incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter for the economic recession and foreign policy humiliations of the late 1970s.

See also