The New Shape of American Politics

The losers of the 1966 Congressional elections are easy enough to identify. They include the black and white poor, the Negroes generally, both unorganized and organized wage workers, people who live in cities, liberals, radicals, etc.

By and large the Dixiecrat-Republican coalition, the legislative majority party in the United States from 1938 to 1964, triumphed. Many of the reasons for this disaster have already been copiously annotated in the daily and weekly press: a general feeling...