Political divisions inside the United States often seemed minor … Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Christian Democracy. But by the end of the decade, a full-fledged tax revolt had gotten underway, led by the overwhelming passage in 1978 of Proposition 13 in California, which sharply cut property taxes, and the growing Congressional support for the Kemp-Roth tax bill, which proposed cutting federal income taxes by 30 percent.An icon of the American conservative movement, Reagan is credited by his supporters with transforming the politics of the United States, galvanizing the success of the Republican Party. "What Are We Most Angry About? In the early 1970s, America was still a moderately progressive country, as citizens supported social programs and voted down efforts to cut taxes. Modern American Conservatives often identify with the Patriots of the 1770s, a fact exemplified in 2009 by the The American Revolution proved highly disruptive to the old networks of conservative elites in the colonies. He was both, and his politics engendered a long-term tradition of centrism..." .After the Civil War, "conservative" came to mean those who supported the steady integration of blacks into American society, but opposed the There was also a liberal element in the South—in support of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt—but they rarely opposed Jim Crow.There was little nostalgia and backward looking in the dynamic North and West during the Conservatives in the 20th Century, looking back at the Gilded Age, retroactively applied the word "conservative" to those who supported In this sense, the conservative element of the Democratic party was led by the Religious conservatives of this period sponsored a large and flourishing media network, especially based on magazines, many with close ties to the Protestant churches that were rapidly expanding due to the The two parties re-aligned in the election of 1896, with the conservative Republicans led by As the 19th century drew to a close, the United States became an imperial power, with overseas territories in Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, and control over Cuba. However, it alienated many working-class ethnic whites, and opened the door for conservative white Southerners to move into the Republican Party.In foreign policy, The war in Vietnam was a highly divisive issue in the 1970s. It is not that of course; if The main disagreement between Kirk, who would become described as a Despite the popular perception that conservatism is limited to Republicans, during the era of Conservatives united behind the 1964 presidential campaign of Arizona Senator Despite Goldwater's defeat conservatives were rapidly organizing at the local, state, and national levels.
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