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In American politics, a conservative Democrat is a member of the Democratic Party with more conservative views than most Democrats. Traditionally, conservative Democrats have been elected to office from the Southern states, rural areas, and the Great Plains.[1] In a 2024 Gallup survey 55% of democrats identified as liberal or vary liberal, 34% identified as moderate, and 9% identified as conservative or vary conservative.[2]
Before 1964, the Democratic Party and Republican Party each had influential liberal, moderate, and conservative wings. During this period, conservative Democrats formed the Democratic half of the conservative coalition. After 1964, the Democratic Party retained its conservative wing through the 1970s with the help of urban machine politics. In the 21st century, the number of conservative Democrats decreased as the party moved leftward, with significant declines of conservative identification among democrats occurring during the first term of George W. Bush between 2002 and 2005 (declining from 26% to 21%). And during the ending years of Barack Obama's second term and first year of Trump's first presidency, between 2014 and 2017 (declining from 19% to 13%).[3][4]
The Blue Dog Coalition represents centrist and conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, the group had historically had significant influence over the party during the 1990s and 2000s, though it's influence on the party has declined since the 2010s.[5][6]
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- ^ Inc, Gallup (2025-01-16). "U.S. Political Parties Historically Polarized Ideologically". Gallup.com. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
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- ^ Sach, Maddie (December 16, 2019). "Why The Democrats Have Shifted Left Over The Last 30 Years". FiveThirtyEight.
- ^ Edward G. Carmines, and Michael Berkman, "Ethos, ideology, and partisanship: Exploring the paradox of conservative Democrats." Political Behavior 16 (1994): 203-218. online
- ^ Adam J. Schiffer, "I'm not that liberal: Explaining conservative democratic identification." Political Behavior 22 (2000): 293-310.
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