American Independent Party

American Independent Party
ChairmanVictor Marani (CA)[1]
Vice ChairmanJames Mallamace[2]
FoundersBill Shearer
Eileen Knowland Shearer
FoundedJuly 8, 1967 (1967-07-08)
Split fromDemocratic Party
Republican Party
HeadquartersPO Box 1479.
Freedom, California 95019
IdeologyAmerican nationalism
Anti-communism
Paleoconservatism[3]
Right-wing populism
Formerly, now factions:
Populism
Economic populism
Syncretic politics
Political positionFar-right[4][5][6][7]
National affiliationAmerican Independent Party[8]
Slogan"No North, No South, No East, No West - One Great Nation, Heaven Blessed!"
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Party flag
Website
aipca.vote

The American Independent Party (AIP) is a far-right political party in the United States that was established in 1967. The AIP is best known for its nomination of Democratic then-former Governor George Wallace of Alabama, who carried five states in the 1968 presidential election running on a populist, hard-line anti-Communist, pro-"law and order" platform, appealing to working-class white voters and widely understood by political analysts as having pro-segregationist or white supremacist undertones, against Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. In 1976, the party split into the modern American Independent Party and the American Party. From 1992 until 2008, the party was the California affiliate of the national Constitution Party. Its exit from the Constitution Party led to a leadership dispute during the 2008 election.

  1. ^ "The American Independent Party - The Fastest Growing Political Party In California". www.aipca.vote.
  2. ^ https://www.aipca.vote/_theme/assets/files/statements/AIP-Resolution-USSS-Protection.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ John Myers, Would-be independents joining the American Independent Party could blame California's voter registration card, Los Angeles Times (April 19, 2016).
  4. ^ James Aho, Far-Right Fantasy: A Sociology of American Religion and Politics (Routledge, 2015), p. 15.
  5. ^ George April, Willis Carto and the American Far Right (University Press of Florida, 2008), p. 160.
  6. ^ Martin Durham, The Christian Right, the Far Right and the Boundaries of American Conservatism (Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 8.
  7. ^ "Many American Independent Party voters in California are mis-registered".
  8. ^ "History of the American Independent Party". American Independent Party. 2011. Archived from the original on 2018-12-24. Retrieved 2015-08-14.

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