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Please research the article's assertions. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #1E90FF; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF"><b>God, guns, and freedom</b><br /><a href="/wiki/United_States_politics" title="United States politics"><font size="4" color="White"><b>U.S. Politics</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#97DEFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:United_States_politics" title="Category:United States politics"><img alt="Icon politics USA.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/100px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/150px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/200px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Starting arguments over Thanksgiving dinner</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FairTax" title="FairTax">FairTax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons" title="Association of American Physicians and Surgeons">Association of American Physicians and Surgeons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_South" title="The South">The South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_Lobby" title="Liberty Lobby">Liberty Lobby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove">Karl Rove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Rapert" title="Jason Rapert">Jason Rapert</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:white; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Persons of interest</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liz_Cheney" title="Liz Cheney">Liz Cheney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beto_O%27Rourke" title="Beto O'Rourke">Beto O'Rourke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._Philip_Randolph" title="A. Philip Randolph">A. Philip Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Rapert" title="Jason Rapert">Jason Rapert</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Uspolitics" title="Template:Uspolitics">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Uspolitics" title="Template talk:Uspolitics">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Uspolitics&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Blue Dog Democrats</b> or <b>Conservative Democrats</b> is a coalition of <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="/wiki/Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress">Congressional</a> Representatives who are members of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party">Democratic Party</a>. They were the Southern Democrats who stayed loyal to the party after the parties flipped. It currently has 10 seats.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> Conservative Democrats in the 21st century tend to be more <a href="/wiki/Centrism" title="Centrism">centrist</a> based on fiscal-<a href="/wiki/Fiscal_conservatism" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiscal conservatism">conservative</a> (center-right) and social-moderate/<a href="/wiki/Social_liberalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Social liberalism">liberal</a> (center to center-left) than hardline conservatives (right-wing) at the Republican level. </p><p>They came into prominence in the 1970s, with "small government" <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> being nominated for <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">president</a> in 1976 after noted progressive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" class="extiw" title="wp:George McGovern" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: George McGovern">George McGovern</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> lost spectacularly to <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> in 1972. Nowadays, Carter is remembered as a die-hard liberal in comparison to the rest of his party, similar to how Nixon, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Strategy" title="Southern Strategy">Southern Strategy</a> or not, largely ran as a moderate while in office (passing the EPA and OSHA Act). </p><p>Blue Dogs gained national fame, as it were, in the 1980s, when they used be known as "<a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a> Democrats," having voted for and with the man during his presidency — to the nation's eventual dismay, as Reagan would push a fiscally irresponsible agenda known as <a href="/wiki/Reaganomics" class="mw-redirect" title="Reaganomics">Reaganomics</a>. They went along with <a href="/wiki/Supply-side_economics" title="Supply-side economics">supply-side economics</a>, supported hawkish stances against the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, and cut social benefits alongside the Republican, but they still supported New Deal-esque policies enough not to target Social Security and Medicare, and tried to pass an amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed equal rights to male and female citizens in the '90s. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Modern_usage">Modern usage</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Blue_Dog_Democrats&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Modern usage">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Nowadays, the centrist wing of the party has two factions: the socially moderate Blue Dogs and the New Democrats. Blue Dogs often vote with Republicans on gun control, the <a href="/wiki/War_on_Drugs" title="War on Drugs">War on Drugs</a>, gay marriage for the longest time, and even violent video games at one point. New Democrats differentiate themselves through their more socially liberal and left-sounding rhetoric, but often adhere to fiscal conservatism that champions free trade, privatization, deregulation, and reduced government spending. </p><p>Since Reagan's election, the vast majority of the Democratic Party, reeling from so many Republican victories in the White House, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">switched to the right in an attempt to compete with the conservative vote; largely leaving the left to dry</a>. President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, who outright said Nixon was to his left on many issues, has largely done the same. <a href="/wiki/Third_Way" title="Third Way">To his credit, Obama is far more socially liberal than Clinton, putting him squarely on the New Democrat side of issues.</a> </p><p>However, there aren't that many Blue Dogs left to flip. They have been wiped out since 2010 as inmates have taken over the asylum within Congress. They were never popular, but it was a sad sight to see Blue Dogs replaced with the far-right Republicans; the country has not been the same since, and in a way, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Landrieu" title="Mary Landrieu">Mary Landrieu</a> was the last major Blue Dog left. The closest you'd get to it are people like Kirsten Gillibrand and Joaquin Castro, but Joaquin's the less-popular Castro brother (no, not <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">those</a> <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Castro brothers</a>) and Gillibrand has moved <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">decidedly left</a> since becoming a senator for NY. <a href="/wiki/Kyrsten_Sinema" title="Kyrsten Sinema">Kyrsten Sinema</a> was also associated with the Blue Dogs, but she switched to being an independent. Another nail in their coffin came in 2023, where not only did several Blue Dogs lose their seats in the <a href="/wiki/2022_midterm_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 midterm elections">2022 midterm elections</a>, but the remaining members split in two after a dispute over their name, as "Blue Dog" is heavily associated with the <a href="/wiki/Dixiecrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Dixiecrat">Dixiecrat</a> era of the party, with six former Blue Dogs splitting to the "<a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_common_sense" title="Appeal to common sense">Common Sense Coalition</a>". This left the Blue Dog coalition with only 7 members, their lowest of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>Regardless of the decade or era, one thing is constant: Blue Dogs are more likely to follow <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party">Republican</a> lines of thought when it comes to fiscal policy and foreign affairs, and they tend to side with corporate interests in nearly all other matters as well. Any similarity ends there, as Blue Dogs remain not quite as socially conservative as modern Republicans, although they prefer not to rock the boat and adhere very closely to the Cult of Centrism (that is, you've gotta be moderate on all issues if you want broad appeal to voters). </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Blue_Dog_Democrats&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DINO" class="mw-redirect" title="DINO">DINO</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Blue_Dog_Democrats&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition">in the 118th Congress</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/24/democrats-departing-blue-dog-coalition-00079113">Rebranding rift guts Blue Dog Dem ranks</a>, Ally Mutnick and Sarah Ferris, <i>Politico</i> 24 January 2023</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div role="note" class="plainlinks stubtemplate" style="margin:auto; text-align:center; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: .5em; border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 300px; font-style:italic;">This <a href="/wiki/Category:Politics" 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