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The presidential election of 1936 was one of the most ideologically charged in American history. The policy differences between Democrats and Republicans expressed in that year would continue in the same general outline for the rest of the twentieth century. Traditionally the party of states' rights, the Democratic Party became the party of the federally constructed welfare state. Conversely, Republicans abandoned their defense of federal power, a position they had held since the Civil War and Reconstruction, and embraced local and states' rights.
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