A summary of some moments in feminist history and "waves"

[RainDog]

4. Thanks for your input

I agree that the realignment started with The New Deal.

Southern whites didn't like that the FDR administration extended The New Deal to blacks as well as whites - but the loss of working-class whites wasn't complete until the passage of the Civil Rights Act and George Wallace winning the deep South in the next election cycle.

But, afaik, the Kennedy administration was the first to take up political concerns of women as an "interest group."

Overall, the interesting thing about the FDR election was an overall change, with urban "ethnic" groups - Italians and Germans, for instance, gaining power in the Democratic party and fighting the rural South over prohibition. It seems, again, that religious groups that we define as "puritan" have moved the the Republican party with the Democrats' embrace of more inclusive politics.