''The Emerging Democratic Majority'' is a 2002 book by

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and Ruy Teixeira which argued that certain demographic and social changes in the United States at the turn of the 21st century were creating a political landscape that favored the Democratic Party. The book's thesis was later disavowed by both of its writers with differing explanations. The book's central argument is that the Democratic Party would become dominant due to adherence to "a progressive centrism," an ideology that Teixeira later in November 2024 said was maintained by the party from the presidency of

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to the beginning of

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's second term, and was discarded thereafter, leading to defeat in the presidential elections of

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and

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. In 2015, in an essay ''The Emerging Republican Advantage'', Judis recanted his views in the book and argued that the long term Democratic majority had given way to an "unstable equilibrium" between the parties. He wrote that the long term Democratic Majority was gone as

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and

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were considerably less Democratic than he assumed and that

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working class voters were abandoning the Democratic party.

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