Volume 10, Number 12 · June 20, 1968
Party of the Rich and Well-Born
By I.F. Stone
Fall from Grace: The Republican Party and the Puritan Ethic
by Milton Viorst
New American Library, 227 pp., $5.50
The Republican Party 1854-1966
by George H. Mayer
Oxford, 604 pp., $9.75
The Republican Party began as, and is again, a minority party. It originated as a third party in 1854, when the slavery issue was splitting the Democrats and the Whigs. It is, according to Dr. Gallup, really a third party again today. In 1940 a poll of between-election leanings showed that 42 percent identified themselves as Democrats, 38 percent as Republicans, and 20 percent as independents. When Gallup repeated the same poll last Fall, there were more independents than Republicans. The Democrats still held at 42 percent but the Republicans had dropped to 27 and the independents risen to 31 percent.
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