 In 1860 and 1948, two election years when racial issues predominated, there were two Democratic parties, each with its own nominee: John C. Breckinridge and Stephen A. Douglas in the 19th century, and Harry Truman and Strom Thurmond in the 20th. There arguably were two Democratic parties in the 1930s — one led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and another opposed to FDR's New Deal — and two different ones in the 1960s, one supporting Lyndon B. Johnson's push for civil rights and the other opposing it.
Today there may be four Democratic parties, as identified in a YouGov poll of 19,000 Democrats in a Cooperative Election Study analyzed by The Economist: progressive Democrats, establishment Democrats, religious-oriented Democrats and isolationist Democrats.
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