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political
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All this procured an extraordinary socio-\#political realignment .
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It is simply this: The vote of 1996 will determine whether the country has undergone a fundamental political realignment .
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As in the Boer War, the issue of peace cut across class lines, opening the way to a political realignment .
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Most of the recent party-switchers have come from southern states, where political realignment in the post-Reagan era has been most dramatic.
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the realignment of broken bones
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Anyone seeking to include the Liberals in realignment on the left is not only misguided.
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But the chances of such a realignment happening seem slight.
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But this is a rolling realignment that started long before Haley Barbour was involved.
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Most of the recent party-switchers have come from southern states, where political realignment in the post-Reagan era has been most dramatic.
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The realignment of these societies was necessarily slow, their central value-systems resistant to change.
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Then too, the setting up of new structures forces institutional realignment and overhaul.
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They waste time negotiating for the realignment of hierarchical authority and the top management commitment of those who have it.
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With the benefit of hindsight it can be seen that the 1980 breakthrough for the Republicans did not herald a realignment .