Political Party Classifications

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This paper examines the evolving policy positions of America's two major political parties. The paper contends that over the past twenty years, and especially over the last four years, they have created a political environment in which traditional party labels don't mean as much as they used to. The paper explains that under such conditions, accurately identifying an individual citizen as a member of one of these ten basic groups is much more of a challenge than it used to be.

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"Upon completing the activities at the assigned political party selector website, I found that I was classified as a socially conservative Democrat. I don't consider this a completely valid assessment of my political views, for I believe that I also met most of the criteria of the moderate Republican group and some of the criteria of many of the other groups. As I examined the criteria this website used and the phrasing of the questions, it became evident that accurately defining someone's political affiliation is not an exact science. Essentially, this process is complicated by a variety of social, economic, political, religious and cultural factors which confuse political identification instead of clarifying it."

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