Identity Crisis in US Politics: How Party Affiliations Shape Racial Attitudes

Name Institutional affiliations Date Nexus between political party and identity When the United States developed the political system, there was automatic recognition of the uprising social groups. When leaders formed the aristocratic republic towards the end of the 18th century, the state system was developed similarly. The state system came about with the divisions between the wealthy and the ordinary people, whereby the poor and people of color felt the differences because the wealthy male citizens had a higher bargaining power in establishing their civil rights. The recognition of different groups has come a long way considering that slavery abolition marked the beginning of black citizen's rights, whereby the government started recognizing women's civil rights. Each of these social groups has fought for recognition in the political arenas. The representation of these groups is fiercely fought for in power through the democratic and Republican Party’s representation. It is in this notion of social groups and alienation to particular belonging that the book 'identity Crisis' focused on the electioneering period and focused on what were the issues that led to the triumph of Donald Trump and the fall of Hilary Clinton (Sides, Tesler, and Vavreck, 2019). There is undoubtedly an identity crisis, and the political class has lately been using it in their manifestos. In explaining Trump winning the presidential elections, the authors argue he (Trump) used a language that those affiliated to his party understood in racial attitudes (Sides, Tesler, and Vavreck, 2019). The contest between Trump and Clinton was mainly to succeed the outgoing president Barrack Obam