Latest POD For A Party Flip?

What's the latest possible POD for a US Political Party flip (ie. In 2016, the Democratic Party is largely more conservative and the Republican Party largely more liberal.)

I'd assume that it's somewhere in the 1970's but I'd like to here what you guys think.
 
1944, maybe. Honestly, once the New Deal became the GOP's Moby Dick, I feel like they were doomed to welcome in John Birchers and whoever else thought social insurance was communism.
 
1948. Stop Hubert Humphrey from making his magnificent speech and the minority report (which included provisions about civil rights) isn't adopted, the result being that Truman loses the election because blacks go to either the Republicans or the Progressives (as Wallace was a civil rights hero). Perhaps this move is permanent, and that's a party flip.
 
What's the latest possible POD for a US Political Party flip (ie. In 2016, the Democratic Party is largely more conservative and the Republican Party largely more liberal.)

I'd assume that it's somewhere in the 1970's but I'd like to here what you guys think.

I'm not sure it's possible. The Democrat Party has always been more the party of the workers and the Republicans more of the toffs. The Republicans were the heirs of the Whigs.

While Southern Democrats were more conservative than the national party, that was an artifact of all Southerners being Democrats, regardless of ideology. It should also be noted that some of the most notorious race-baiting Dixiecrats were liberals on non-race issues.

One might see a Democratic party that was socially conservative, but it wouldn't be truly conservative. Vide the career of Wiliam Jennings Bryan.
 
1944, maybe. Honestly, once the New Deal became the GOP's Moby Dick, I feel like they were doomed to welcome in John Birchers and whoever else thought social insurance was communism.
I like this. But I might say 1929 if Hoover hit upon priming the pump and public works projects.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Roosevelt not pulling out and allowing for the Conservative Wing to dominate the party platform from between 1912-1928 would be a good start, I think.
 
On social issues, particularly racial issues, I'd say by 1964 at the latest, though as mentioned above, by 1948 it was unlikely to flip. On economic issues, before the New Deal is the latest for a plausible flip, though by then it would already be unlikely.
 

cpip

Gone Fishin'
One might see a Democratic party that was socially conservative, but it wouldn't be truly conservative. Vide the career of Wiliam Jennings Bryan.

Might you end up with (as the modern US would characterize the terms) a Socially Conservative, Economically Liberal Democratic party, and a Socially Liberal, Economically Conservative Republican Party?
 
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