id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9240 Democratic Party (United States) - Wikipedia .html text/html 26677 3496 67 Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has promoted a social liberal platform.[3][15] The New Deal attracted strong support for the party from recent European immigrants, many of whom were Catholics based in the cities, but caused a decline of the party's conservative pro-business wing.[16][17][18] After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the core bases of the two parties shifted, with the Southern states becoming more reliably Republican in presidential politics and the Northeastern states becoming more reliably Democratic. The Democratic Party's philosophy of modern liberalism blends notions of civil liberty and social equality with support for a mixed economy.[23] In Congress, the party is a big-tent coalition with influential centrist, progressive, and conservative wings.[24] Corporate governance reform, environmental protection, support for organized labor, expansion of social programs, affordable college tuition, universal health care, equal opportunity, and consumer protection form the core of the party's economic agenda.[25][26] On social issues, it advocates campaign finance reform,[27] LGBT rights,[28] criminal justice and immigration reform,[29] stricter gun laws,[30] abortion rights,[31] and the legalization of marijuana.[32] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9240.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9240.txt