Class and Party Support in the United States: Recent and Emerging Trends

In this article Norval Glenn brings trend data in voting and party identification to bear on the proposition that traditional class differences in party support have vanished or are being reversed. He concludes that although class polarization in the party choice of major-party identifiers did not decline appreciably, if at all, during the 1960's, class-based voting outside the South has declined almost steadily since 1948. Some implications of these findings are discussed.