Nice Update.
One thing I can say is that it was quite clever of President Anderson to adopt those Republican policies.
I like these positions.
Nice update.
Indeed, Anderson is the standard bearer for what are known as moderate or liberal Democrats who are at the helm of the party at the moment. The conservative wing of the party however is still very much alive. Keep in mind that both parties are far less stratified than their modern day equivalents in OTL. In other words both have liberal and conservative wings that vie for power.
I think this would be a good time to talk a little bit about the U.S. political parties and their positions as of 1960.
The Republican Party generally favors free trade, federal support for infrastructure projects, and an active foreign policy, especially in the Western Hemisphere. Reliable Republican constituents are ethnic minorities, large businesses, and the military. Republican strongholds include Sequoyah, the Caribbean states, and parts of the Western United States.
The Democratic Party is more protectionist, champions small government (very small by OTL standards), and promotes a restrained and minimalist foreign policy. Labor unions, racial conservatives, and isolationists make up the core of the Democratic Party. The South has been solidly Democratic since the Civil War and remains so.
Some smaller parties whose positions are easy enough to guess are the American Socialist Party, American Communist Party, Union of American Technocrats (Krulikist), Temperance Party, and the American Conservative Party (segregationist).
