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Yes: over the 20th century the Democratic and Republican parties underwent a major, multi-decade realignment on race and regional coalitions. The change was gradual — driven by New Deal coalitions, ci...
A small minority of Republicans voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964: six Republican senators voted “nay” in the Senate cloture/final passage votes, and a minority of House Republicans opposed t...
Southern white voters began a measurable, decades-long shift from the Democratic Party toward the Republican Party starting in the mid-20th century, with as parties realigned over civil rights and sta...
The U.S. Constitution requires a president to be a "natural born Citizen," at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years . Legal and scholarly sources agree that "natural born" means citizen...
The Goldwater Rule, adopted by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973, forbids psychiatrists from offering professional diagnoses of public figures whom they have not personally examined a...
is long‑standing ethics restriction that forbids member psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about the mental state of public figures unless they have personally examined the individual a...
The materials supplied focus overwhelmingly on President Trump’s 2025 reinstatement of the Presidential Fitness Test and public debate about physical fitness policy, not on formal psychiatric evaluati...
The Goldwater Rule is an APA ethics annotation—Section 7.3—adopted in 1973 that forbids psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about the mental health of public figures they have not person...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964, amid a bruising congressional fight and national debate, yet its passage did not prevent Lyndon B. Johnson from winning the presidenti...
Most historians and political scientists say civil rights laws of the 1960s were a major catalyst — not the only cause — for the long-term shift of many white Southern voters and some politicians away...
The Goldwater Rule is an American Psychiatric Association (APA) ethics guideline adopted in 1973 that bars APA member‑psychiatrists from offering a professional diagnosis of a public figure without a ...
The Goldwater Rule is an American Psychiatric Association ethical guideline that bars psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about a public figure's mental health without a personal examina...
— commonly the GOP — was founded in the 1850s as an anti‑slavery coalition and rose to national power with ’s 1860 victory, then evolved through phases of , pro‑business alignment, mid‑20th century mo...
The —adopted by the in 1973 after psychiatrists publicly labeled “unfit” during the 1964 campaign—prohibits psychiatrists from offering a professional opinion about public figures they have not person...
Southern Democrats were the principal congressional bloc resisting major civil‑rights legislation in the 1960s: they largely opposed early federal measures in 1957–60, mounted a prolonged Senate filib...
The Republican Party began the post–Civil War era as the party most closely associated with Black voting rights and Reconstruction-era enforcement of the 13th–15th Amendments, but over the ensuing cen...
unfolded across decades, not overnight: northern Black voters began moving toward the during the New Deal and , mid‑century Democratic commitments to national civil‑rights laws crystallized the change...
A substantial cohort of played a decisive role in passing the : roughly 27 Republican senators joined Democrats to invoke cloture against a Southern filibuster and a strong majority of voted for final...
is an ethics annotation that forbids psychiatrists from offering a professional opinion about the mental health of public figures they have not personally examined and authorized to discuss . Since 20...
From the end of in 1877 through the passage of the in 1965, Democrats and Republicans occupied different, shifting positions on segregation: Southern and many state-level Democrats built and defended ...