Color in the Map: Four Elections that Changed American History Jared Tetreau

In our final episode, Jared and Nate explore civil rights, Vietnam, and the rising tide of the counterculture as they discuss the resolution of a decade's worth of political unrest in the election of 1968. The team takes a look at the fall of the New Deal Coalition and the South's final break with the Democratic Party, as well as how the escalation in Vietnam had reshaped party loyalties in the 1960s. They close the series with a look back on the arc of the show. Plus, Jared and Nate talk about Richard Nixon's excessive levels of perspiration. 

In this episode, Jared and Nate discuss the election of 1932, the rise of a new social democratic consensus in America, and the creation of the New Deal Coalition under the leadership of Jared's favorite president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ninety percent of this one is just Jared fangirling over a man that's been dead for 76 years, but in the remaining ten percent, the team looks into the failures of the Hoover Administration, the contours of the Great Depression, and how the rise of the New Deal provided a new foundation of citizenship in the United States. Plus, Nate endorses Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for President. 

In this episode, Jared and Nate suffer from deja vu by discussing rising populism and crushing inequality in the election of 1896. The team takes a look at the presidency of Grover Cleveland, the birth of modern campaigning and the modern presidency, the emergence of American progressivism, the obnoxiousness of William Jennings Bryan, and the crazy intensity with which people used to debate insanely boring things like monetary policy. Also, Nate shares his thoughts on Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Jared gives a crash course in economics. 

In this episode, Jared and Nate are moving to Canada to escape the oncoming scourge of the Civil War, as the election of 1860 unravels the entire country. This episode explores the candidates that contested the election (there are way too many), the issues that dominated it (slavery), and its aftermath (there was a literal civil war). Also, the team talks about the enduring impacts of this realignment and the startling similarities between the election of 1860 and the election of 2020. Plus, Jared learns about the weird names that Sarah Palin gave her children. 

In our first episode, Jared and Nate introduce themselves and their mission. Before they begin their deep dive into the four elections that changed American history, they explore the concept of electoral realignment theory, specifically its origins in political science, the power shifts it explains, and the major signs of a realignment election.