Saturday, April 19, 2014

What did the New Deal offer to the diverse elements of the New Deal coalition?

The New Deal coalition was a coalition of various groups
that all started to support the Democratic Party during the New Deal.  The coalition
included many different groups and came to dominate American politics for the next few
decades.


As the link below says, the New Deal coalition
involved many different groups:


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An interesting group of Americans supported
Roosevelt: It was the first presidential election in which the Democratic candidate won
a majority of black Americans' votes. Support also came from other minorities and from
laborers, Catholics, Jews, and big-city political organizations. The South also voted
Democratic.



When thinking
about what the New Deal gave to each of these groups, please note that the groups
overlap to a great extent.  For example, Catholics, Jews, and big-city political
organizations cannot be separated from the category of "laborers" (also called labor
unions in many texts).  So what the unions got was also a benefit to the other
groups.


Some things that the groups got
include:


  • Labor unions got more in the way of
    collective bargaining rights and protections.

  • Farmers got
    programs that helped to guarantee them a basic level of
    income.

  • The South (many of whom were farmers, of course)
    got the TVA, which brought electricity and flood
    control.

  • The poor (many of who were in the South, or were
    black, or were in the big cities of the North) got government jobs in things like the
    WPA or the CCC.  They also got income support in some
    cases.

Overall, then, all of these groups
benefitted from the New Deal programs because these programs helped revive the economy
as a whole.

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