New Departure (United States)

The New Departure refers to the political platform adopted by the US Democratic Party after 1865, and the subsequently deployed strategy, in order to distance itself from its pro-slavery and Copperhead history. The approach was an effort to broaden the party's political base and to focus on issues on which it had more of an advantage, especially economic ones.

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