<P> The New Deal coalition was the alignment of interest groups and voting blocs in the United States that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates from 1932 until the late 1960s . It made the Democratic Party the majority party during that period, losing only to Dwight D. Eisenhower, a pro-New Deal Republican, in 1952 and 1956 . Franklin D. Roosevelt forged a coalition that included the Democratic state party organizations, city machines, labor unions, blue collar workers, minorities (racial, ethnic, and religious), farmers, white Southerners, people on relief, and intellectuals . The coalition began to fall apart with the bitter factionalism during the 1968 election, but it remains the model that party activists seek to replicate . </P> <P> The 1932 presidential election and the 1934 Senate and House of Representatives elections brought about long - term shifts in voting behavior, and became an enduring realignment . Roosevelt set up his New Deal in 1933 and forged a coalition of labor unions, liberals, religious, ethnic and racial minorities (Catholics, Jews and Blacks), Southern whites, poor people and those on relief . The organizational heft was provided by big - city machines, which gained access to millions of relief jobs and billions of dollars in spending projects . These voting blocs together formed a majority of voters and handed the Democratic Party seven victories out of nine presidential elections (1932--1948, 1960, 1964), as well as control of both houses of Congress during all but four years between the years 1932--1980 (Republicans won small majorities in 1946 and 1952). Starting in the 1930s, the term "liberal" was used in US politics to indicate supporters of the coalition, "conservative" its opponents . The coalition was never formally organized, and the constituent members often disagreed . The coalition usually was often divided on foreign policy and racial issues but was more united to support liberal proposals in other domestic policy . </P> <P> Political scientists have called the resulting new coalition the "Fifth Party System" in contrast to the Fourth Party System of the 1896--1932 era that it replaced . Journalist Sidney Lubell found in his survey of voters after the 1948 presidential election that Democrat Harry Truman, not Republican Thomas E. Dewey, seemed the safer, more conservative candidate to the "new middle class" that had developed over the previous 20 years . He wrote that "to an appreciable part of the electorate, the Democrats had replaced the Republicans as the party of prosperity" and quoted a man who, when asked why he did not vote Republican after moving to the suburbs, answered "I own a nice home, have a new car and am much better off than my parents were . I've been a Democrat all my life . Why should I change?" </P>

What group was not part of the new deal coalition