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A study of the Democratic Party explains how a group of secular, educated elites, drawing on a commission created at the 1968 Chicago convention and later chaired by Senator George McGovern has moved the party away from its working class and religious roots.
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Journalist Stricherz argues that the Democratic Party is fundamentally weakened because of its abandonment of social conservatism, which resulted from the hijacking of the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection (the McGovern Commission) by secular liberals who sidelined the party bosses and imposed a more procedurally democratic process that was, according to Stricherz, less substantively democratic and served to drive away many blue-collar and Catholic voters who otherwise would have sided with the Democrats on economic issues. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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