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1. Democratic Party United States

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   The New Deal Coalition
   Following the defeat of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party drifted somewhat directionless until the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal solidified the party's modern identity, characterized by Keynesian economics, expansion of the social safety net, and robust federal regulation. The New Deal Coalition unified urban working classes, Southern conservatives, and ethnic minorities, though this coalition proved fragile during the C…