id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6847 Political parties in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 7000 941 64 New voter coalitions emerged gradually during the latter half of the 20th century starting with the racially-based "Southern strategy," launched by 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and used successfully by Richard Nixon to attain the presidency in 1968, according to the Washington Post.[25] Conservatives and the Republican Party became dominant in the South, rural areas, and suburbs, while liberals and the Democratic Party built a coalition of African-Americans, Hispanics and white urban progressives in the northeast and coastal areas. To this effect, the party supports minimally regulated markets, a less powerful federal government, strong civil liberties, drug liberalization, open immigration, non-interventionism and neutrality in diplomatic relations, free trade and free movement to all foreign countries, and a more representative republic.[38] As of 2016, it is the third largest organized political party in the United States. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6847.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6847.txt