POLI 2056 Chapter : Louisiana S Party History
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Louisiana"s party history: responsible party model, we have political parties because louisiana is a place where some people don"t associate with parties all the time. This could be good if you are informed but if people are voting based on popularity or personality, it ruins democracy. Long started something like a two party system. ix. No real democracy with a one party system: party system three: long era bifactionalism, bifactionalism, well defined, south was dominated by this need to keep former slaves as second class citizens creating the one party rule. Democratic party: louisiana and the rest of the south were looked down as blocking democracy. Louisiana became more democratic (not the party) before the rest of the south especially in the deep south: african- americans were half the population and were seen as a threat to whites. In louisiana, a type of a two party system emerged centered about. The factions were the longs and the anti-longs.
