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Why do the majority of Soka students
politically identify as Democrats?
Karoline Schaufler
Location
(1)
California Popular Vote
Republican
Democrat
Other
California
Proposition 187
Proposition 209
Last Republican Year
Recession ends
2012
1991
1994
1988
Economic Crisis
Minority Population Growth
1996
Student Body
Students
Rock the Vote
26th Amendment
1971
Eugene
McCarthy
2012
1979
1968
1991
Department of Education
Organization Act
Gender
Soka University of America Students
(6)
35%
65%
Male
Female
Women
Roe v. Wade
Social Security Act
1920
1972
1935
2012
Department
of Education
Organization
Act
Issues of
importance
to women
1973
Equal Rights
Amendment
Phyllis Schlafly
19th Amendment
1979
Religion
“Soka University of America (SUA) is an independent, nonprofit, public-benefit, co-educational, comprehensive
institution of higher learning. Founded on the Buddhist
principles of peace, human rights and the sanctity of life, SUA
is open to students of all nationalities and beliefs and is
committed to diversity in its academic community.”(6)
Party Platform:
“a position on
abortion that
values human life”
“One nation under God”
“Rights must not be taken from
those to whom God has given them”
Non-Christian
1973
1976
1979
1972
Moral Majority
Roe v. Wade
Jerry Falwell
2012
Community
(6)
“Queeriosity” Club
Coming Out Month
Soka Celebrates Coming-Out Month
Mattachine
Society
California
Democratic
Council
recognizes a
gay caucus
Gay Community
Harvey Milk
1969
1951
1972
1980
2007 2012
AIDSGATE
1973
1980s
Stonewall Riots
Democratic
party endorses
homosexual
rights.
First
Presidential
LGBT forum
Democratic Party Platform:
“All groups must be protected from discrimination
based on race, color, religion, national origin,
language, age, sex or sexual orientation.”
Conclusion
A combination of the demographics and values
existing at Soka that conform to Liberal ideology
and have become platforms of the Democratic
party is the reason for the campus community’s
overall Democratic slant. These factors include:
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Location
Student status
Gender
Religious affiliation
Gay acceptance
Citations By Topic
California
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Economic Crisis
(3)
• Cold war end
• Defense contracting sector collapsed
• Republican policies
– Crime crackdown
– Cost cutting business reform
– “Quick response teams” to keep businesses in CA
• 1994 out of recession
• Shift to “softer issues”
– Education
– Environment
• Republicans do not adapt
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Proposition 187
(4)
• 1994
• “Save Our State Initiative”
• Restricted rights for illegal immigrants
– Health care
– Public education
• Passed
• Blocked in federal court
– Infringed on federal jurisdiction of immigration
“Democrats have used
the two initiatives to
brand the California
GOP – and Republicans
in general – as racially
and culturally
insensitive”(3)
Proposition 209
(5)
• 1996
• Disallowed factoring of race and
gender to create minority programs
• Passed
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Students
Eugene McCarthy
(1)
• Ran in Democratic primary against
incumbent Lyndon Johnson (D) 1968
• Students backed in protest against
Johnson and Vietnam
– They could be drafted but not vote
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Students Ran McCarthy’s campaign
Became part of Democratic coalition
McCarthy won popular vote
Lost delegate vote to Humphrey
Students continued to work for
Democrats
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26th Amendment
United States Constitution
(2)
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United
States, who are eighteen years of age or older,
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any State on account of age.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to
enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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Department of Education Organization Act
(3)
• Signed by Jimmy Carter (D) 1979
• Separated Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare
– Department of Health and Human
Services
– Department of Education
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Rock the Vote
(4)
• Website and internet community
• Mobilizing young people to vote
– Voter registration
– Education
• Millennial Generation
– About 1/4th 2012 electorate
“We use music, popular
culture, new technologies
and grassroots organizing to
motivate and mobilize
young people in our country
to participate in every
election, with the goal of
seizing the power of the
youth vote to create political
and social change”(4)
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Women
19th Amendment
United States Constitution
(1)
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any State on account of
sex.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce
this article by appropriate legislation.
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Social Security
(3)
• Part of Roosevelt’s (D) New Deal in 1930s
• Program helping people or families maintain
income
– Disability, unemployment, maternity, etc.
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Equal Rights Amendment
(4)
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by
appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the
date of ratification
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Introduced in 1923 by woman’s suffrage leader Alice Paul
Reintroduced every year
Passed Congress 1972
Never ratified by enough states, deadline extended
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Phyllis Schlafly
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1924Conservative politician and writer
Opposed Equal Rights Amendment
Said women would lose rights
Advocated Berry Goldwater (R) in 1964
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Religion
Roe v. Wade
(1)
• Texas Criminal Abortion Law
– Required doctor referral for abortion
• In violation of 9th & 14th Amendment
– 9th The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall
not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
people(2).
– 14th Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State
deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws(3).
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Jerry Falwell
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• 1933-2007
• Evangelical Southern
Baptist Preacher
• Televangelist
• Political Commentator
(conservative)
• “decay of the nation’s
morality”
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Moral Majority
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• 1979-1989 Lynchburg Virginia
• Jerry Falwell
• Extend Christian values to
politics
• Opposed: women’s rights, legal
abortion, homosexuality
• Pro: family, life, defense,
business
• Claimed credit for Reagans
election in 1981
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Gay Community
Mattachine Society
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1951- Harry Hay
First major gay men’s society
Originally supported Communist ideology
Red Scare minimized affiliation
New moderate/liberal based on that of the African
American civil rights
Followed by:(2)
• One Magizine 1953
– First U.S. pro-gay publication
– Won rights in 1958 to distribute through
U.S. postal service
• Daughters of Bilitus 1955
– Gay women’s group
– Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin
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Stonewall Riots
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• June 18, 1969
• Stonewall Inn
– gay bar
• Employees arrested for selling liquor
without a license
• Patrons arrested for transvestite dressing
• Turned out patrons began to riot
• Riots lasted 5 days
• Beginning of the Modern Gay Rights
Movement
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• 1930-1978
• 1972 moved to San
Francisco opened a
camera store on Castro
Street
• Ran 3 times
• Liberal platform
• Won seat as California city
supervisor in 1977
• Assassinated 1978
Harvey Milk
“One of the first openly gay elected
officials in U.S. history” (4)
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AIDSGATE
(5)
• Reagan (R) administration 19811989
• Minimal government spending
on AIDS research
“Reagan didn't
publicly utter the
term ‘AIDS’ until
his second term,
even as the
disease killed
thousands of
Americans in the
early '80s”
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