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Ch 4-the Political Landscape Flashcards

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Government centric

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Example-campaigning for reelection
Goal is to benefit one piece or one group of govt
Necessary evil

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Politics

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Who gets what and how

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Citizen centric

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Important also

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Ethnocentrism

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Manifest destiny

Defines Americans

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Political socialization

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How you explain your political beliefs

Earliest influence is parents

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Political predisposition

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How you predict political values

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Reinforcing cleavages

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Keep groups separate
Race, religious views, etc
Ex women==reinforcing
Abortion==cross cutting

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Cross cutting cleavages

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Splits normally unified groups

Economy is often a cross cutting cleavage

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American exceptionalism

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MURICA 
qualitatively better
Our formation if country is different from others
Religious findings
Geographic isolation
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Americanization

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If you come to America you’re going to adopt American qualities

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Evolution of Americanization

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19th century–schools
1882–first immigration restrictions (primarily targeted at Asians)
20th century –uniform Americanization
-patriotism
WWI–anti hyphenization (no more German-Americans)
20th-cultural pluralism

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Cultural pluralism

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Could maintain some culture stuff as long as it fits with American ideals

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Americanization continued

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1960s-ethnic nationalism
-start seeing parties trying to get certain races
1990s-new Americanization

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Geographic factors

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National identity-hard to identify
Regional identity-pretty easily identifiable
-south is considered most distinct

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South characteristics

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  • “solid south”-always voted democrat because rep. Was party of lincoln
  • 1964 states voted rep because LBJ was democrat and passing civil rights
  • bible belt
  • lower income
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Religious right

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Conservatism in Republican Party based on religion

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Bible Belt

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South; going to tend to be more conservative because of religion

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Sun belt

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Republican

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Rust belt

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A lot of poor underemployed areas 
Many minorities
Cities 
Formally industrial 
Democratic
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Most urbanized states

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NJ and CA

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Percentage of people who live in urban/suburb

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80%

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Rural areas

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Tend to be conservative

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White flight

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Movement of white people out of cities

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Race

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White 231 million
Black 39 million
Hispanics 50 million

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Income

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Asians 68K
Whites 57K
Hispanics 39K
Blacks. 33K
Higher income==more likely to vote
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Age

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Black-32
White-41

80% of senior citizens are white
50% of youth are minorities

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Gender

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  1. 9 women–democratic
  2. 7 men

Women vote more than men

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Percentage of women in congress

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17%

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Emily’s list

Wish list

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Emily’s=funds democratic women’s campaigns

Wish=fund republican women

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Sexual orientation

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Most vote democratic

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Family structure

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Less nuclear families➡️shift in family values and meaning of what a family is

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Religion

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More than 50% Protestant➡️republican

25% catholic➡️democratic; don’t rely on religious views as much when voting

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Christian Right

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Small percentage of republicans but have lots of influence

Not like by many other republicans

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African Americans

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R➡️D because Lincoln party of republicans then FDR helped African Americans out a lot with the new deal and they began voting democratic

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Fed #10

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Factions

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Education

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Foundation of other factors

Helpful when predicting other things

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Occupation

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Agriculture➡️industry➡️service

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White collar

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Mr.Good

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Blue collar

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Janitors

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Age

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Life cycle effects

Political socialization

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Younger

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More liberal

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Middle age

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Conservative

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Generational effect

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National event that changes people’s values

Pearl Harbor
9/11 etc

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American association of retired persons

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Largest interest group
Big population of old people who are politically active
Retired, well educated, disposable income
As a group are very organized

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