The New Deal Coalition was a political alliance formed in the 1930s that supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies aimed at economic recovery during the Great Depression. It included a diverse range of groups, such as urban working-class voters, African Americans, farmers, labor unions, and intellectuals. This coalition significantly transformed the Democratic Party and helped secure its dominance in American politics for several decades. It united various interests around the common goal of government intervention in the economy to provide relief and reform.
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