Governors Dix took over with a Tammany Hall-backed Democratic Assembly in New York State right as FDR was entering politics in 1911. Throwing his lot in with the GOP, even though he probably would have won an upstate district would have earned him an irrelevant spot in the minority party. read more
It was perfectly logical for a wealthy man like Franking D. Roosevelt to join the Democratic Party. If you want to be President, that's where most of the votes are. The Pareto principle says that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. read more
Franklin D. Roosevelt forged a coalition that included the Democratic state party organizations, city machines, labor unions, blue collar workers, minorities (racial, ethnic, and religious), farmers, white Southerners, people on relief, and intellectuals. read more
To reduce unemployment before the 1936 election Why did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional in the 1935 case of Schechter v. read more