AHC: Make Democrats Conservative & Republicans Liberal

Maybe if you avoid Vietnam and deunionization and minimize the New Left and the Christian right, but I can't think of any postwar western countries where these are the dominant party tendencies. It's very difficult to mobilize oppressed identity/minority groups behind the economic right.
 
You could even do it as late as the Reagan administration - just have him not need to appeal to the Moral Majority, and have his administration play up the socially liberal streak he had as Governor of California.
 
Plenty viable. There's nothing that mandates a pro-business party needs to ally with social conservatives and vice versa a more labor orientated party with social liberals.

These already exist to a certain extent in OTL, certainly not in the national but in the state level. Northeastern Republicans tend to ignore social issues and concentrate on fiscal issues while you have Southern Democrats like Jim Webb and Joe Manchin.
 
No southern strategy for Nixon in 68.

Have the southern dixicrats keep control of the democratic party via the "law and order" appeal to blue collar democrats in the rust belt and have the liberal democrats link up with Rockefeller republicans on the Vietnam war and social issues/race relations despite some economic differences.

Maybe a few changes so RFK lives and runs as a republican against LBJ in 68 :)
 
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