The Conscience of a Liberal

9.

Exit-poll data at http://www.nytimes.com/packages/ pdf/politics/20041107_ px_ELECTORATE.xls.

10.

Thomas Schaller, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South (Simon & Schuster, 2006).

11.

Klinkner and Schaller, “A Regional Analysis.”

12.

See, for example, a Time poll taken in March 2005, http://www.srbi.com/time_poll_arc13.html.

13.

“Rove Criticizes Liberals on 9/11,” New York Times, June 23, 2005, p. A13.

14.

Rick Perlstein, “Why Democrats Can Stop the War,” Salon, Jan. 24, 2007, http://www.salon.com/opinion/ feature/2007/01/24/ perlstein/index_np.html.

15.

National Survey for RNC/NRCC, Oct. 21–Nov. 15, 1979, data from Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Two Harris Polls from 1978 also show the parties closely matched. See http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/ data_access/ipoll /ipoll.html.

16.

Ole R. Holsti, “A Widening Gap Between the U.S. Military and Civilian Society? Some Evidence,” 1976–96. InternationalSecurity 23 (Winter 1999): pp. 5–44.

17.

Rosa Brooks, “Weaning the Military from the GOP,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 5, 2007, p. A23.

18.

See Christopher Gelpi, Jason Reifler, and Peter Feaver, “Iraq the Vote” (photocopy, Duke University, 2005).

19.

Thomas Edsall, Building Red America (Basic Books, 2006), p. 21.

20.

“Periscope,” Newsweek, Aug. 19, 2002, p. 4.

21.

Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (W. W. Norton, 2006).

22.

Marvin Olasky, The Tragedy of American Compassion (Regnery, 1992), p. 227.

23.

Goldberg, Kingdom Coming, p. 150.

24.

“Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized,” Washington Post, Nov. 17, 2006, p. A01.

25.

Goldberg, Kingdom Coming, p. 7.

26

McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal, Polarized America, p. 124.

27.

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=1625.

28.

“How America Doesn’t Vote,” New York Times, Feb. 15, 2004, sec. 4, p. 10.

29.

“Criticism of Voting Law Was Overruled,” Washington Post, Nov. 17, 2005, p. A01.