01093pab a2200181 454500 180718b1999 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Sauerzopf, Richard The urban electorate in Presidential elections, 1920-1996 1999 p.72-91 Sep This study of voting in presidential elections in 12 central cities from 1920 to 1996 shows that cities played a crucial role in the New Deal realignment that dominated presidential elections from 1932 to the 1960s. Since then, cities have declined as a share of the total electorate, but they still provide crucial votes for successful Democratic presidential candidates. As cities have increasingly deviated from national voting trends, however, their turnout rates have increasingly fallen behind the national rates. A call is issued for researchers to break down the suburban vote and to examine contextual effects on voting behavior. - Reproduced Presidents Elections Swanstrom, Todd Urban Affairs Review 42840 42840 42840 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 35, Issue no: 1 AR43225 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR