2. George McGovern and Jesse Jackson have made fundamental changes to Democratic Party yet have been written out of history.
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3. We now think of the Dems as the socially liberal party and GOP as culturally conservatives. There was little reason to do so pre-McGovern
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4. Pre-McGovern: plenty of Dems were social conservatives. Anti-birth control law in Conn. was passed by Democratic legislator.
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5. Conversely pre-McGovern, GOP had many Planned Parenthood types and general social liberals (including Margaret Sanger in her old age)
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6. Every read Updike's Couples? Wife swapping suburbanites in that book are all Republicans -- they hate JFK.
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7. McGovern campaign for the first time aligned Dems firmly with social liberalism: "abortion, amnesty, acid"
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8. Jesse Jackson played similar role to McGovern in helping recast Dem's self-conception.
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9. Rather than hold on to New Deal nostalgia, Jackson pushed idea of Rainbow coalition -- Dem's as multicultural party.
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