Anyone seeking to include the Liberals in realignment on the left is not only misguided.
But the chances of such a realignment happening seem slight.
But this is a rolling realignment that started long before Haley Barbour was involved.
Most of the recent party-switchers have come from southern states, where political realignment in the post-Reagan era has been most dramatic.
The realignment of these societies was necessarily slow, their central value-systems resistant to change.
Then too, the setting up of new structures forces institutional realignment and overhaul.
They waste time negotiating for the realignment of hierarchical authority and the top management commitment of those who have it.
With the benefit of hindsight it can be seen that the 1980 breakthrough for the Republicans did not herald a realignment.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE►political
· All this procured an extraordinary socio-political realignment.· It is simply this: The vote of 1996 will determine whether the country has undergone a fundamental political realignment.· As in the Boer War, the issue of peace cut across class lines, opening the way to a political realignment.· Most of the recent party-switchers have come from southern states, where political realignment in the post-Reagan era has been most dramatic.
1when something is changed and organized in a different waySYN reorganizationrealignment of a realignment of the company’s management structure2when people stop supporting one group and start to support and work together with a different grouprealignment of There is now a need for a realignment of political parties.3when the parts of something are arranged so that they return to their correct positions in relation to each other: the realignment of several major roads