This Side of Paradise. "had grown up to find all Gods dead. all wars fought. all faiths shattered." It was not surprising to find society turning to escapism. and to see the great crusades for progressivism and making the world safe for democracy giving way to bathtub gin. flappers. flagpole sitters. and the other oddities we identify with the "Roaring Twenties." The Democratic coalition which had dominated national politics for the past decade was disintegrating. As Professor David Burner has described in his book. The Politics of Provincialism. "The Republican cause was that of the middling elements in American civilization. in country and city alike. and appealed to a wide range of incomes and occupations. while for decades the Democracy had attracted the extremesthe most aggressively Jeffersonian or populist of the farmers. particularly in the South. and the most powerful of the urban immigrant machines." 2 The postwar issues of Prohibition and immigration quotas further divided the predominantly native. dry. Protestant. rural South from the immigrant. wet. Catholic. bigcity Democratic organizations of the North. Democrats had gotten a foretaste of what was to come in the congressional elections of 1918.
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