The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political
parties in the United States, along with its main rival, the
Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic
Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making
it the world's oldest active political party.Before 1860, the party
supported limited government and state sovereignty while opposing a
national bank and high tariffs. In the late 19th century, it continued
to oppose high tariffs and had bitter internal debates on the gold
standard. In the early 20th century, it supported progressive reforms
and opposed imperialism. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal
coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has promoted a social
liberal platform. Well into the 20th century, the party had
conservative pro-business and Southern conservative-populist wings;
following the New Deal, however, the conservative wing of the party
largely withered outside the South. The New Deal coalition of
1932â€"1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European
extractionâ€"many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the
core bases of the two parties shifted, with the Southern states
becoming more reliably Republican in presidential politics and the
Northeastern states becoming more reliably Democratic. The
once-powerful labor union element became smaller after the 1970s,
although the working class remains an important component of the
Democratic base. People living in urban areas, women, college
graduates, and millennials, as well as sexual, religious, and racial
minorities, also tend to support the Democratic Party.The Democratic
Party's philosophy of modern liberalism blends notions of civil
liberty and social equality with support for a mixed economy. In
Congress, the party has influential centrist, progressive, and
conservative wings. Corporate governance reform, environmental
protection, support for organized labor, maintenance and expansion of
social programs, affordable college tuition, universal health care,
equal opportunity, and consumer protection form the core of the
party's economic agenda. On social issues, it advocates campaign
finance reform, LGBT rights, criminal justice and immigration reform,
stricter gun laws, abortion rights,[27] and the legalization of
marijuana.[28] Democratic Party (United States) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter