Sentence examples for sixth party system from inspiring English sources

Less convincingly, some scholars have suggested that the sixth party system began in 1980.

A great many, with good evidence, date the beginning of the sixth party system to 1972, by which time Southern whites had abandoned the Democratic Party and the G.O.P., having lost African-Americans to the opposition, began folding evangelicals into its ranks.

The third party system lasted until 1896.

But the fourth party system was short-lived, toppled by a new media era.

There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of the seventh party system.

The year 1972 is even taken, sometimes, as not only the end of the fifth party system but the end of the two-party system altogether.

The disequilibrium of that political moment led not only to the beginning of the fourth party system but also to the birth of the primary system.

Jackson's rise also marked the end of the first party system and the beginning of the second: Jacksonian Democrats versus Whigs.

I like Ike!" Historians and political scientists have been arguing for a long time about when the fifth party system yielded to a sixth.

But the model held, and the Federalist Anti-Federalist cleavage, with some adjustments, became the basis oFederalist Anti-Federalistwhicleavageshape in 1796.

(Dating party realignments is an uncertain affair; it depends on how and what you're measuring. By some accounts, the second party system ended in 1860, and we're still in the third).